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Adam: For five years now, OpenNews has been working to support folks working in journalism and technology. Take a few minutes to fill out this survey and help them plan their future. And (because who doesn’t love surveys?) here’s another survey from OpenNews fellow Sandhya Kambhampati on newsroom onboarding/offboarding processes.
Ben: Brent Victor’s Web of Alexandria follow-up post talks about the dichotomy of the Internet: Is it permanent, like a library, or ephemeral, like letters? Even though we treat it like it’s permanent, many, many things pass away. And many things that should perhaps pass away do not.
Gabe: A call to arms to put more thought in choosing your next typeface. Also, a great compendium of available web font resources.
Jack: The future of journalism may be predicated on relationships with audiences, but if so how do you build them? An interesting report on “social journalism” published by the Tow-Knight Center says “share, find and connect.”
Julia: An open-source brand redesign? Regarding Mozilla’s latest initiative, Fast Company asks: Creative commons or creative chaos?
Inndy: Drone journalism gets an OK from the FAA.
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Work we admire by our journalism peers
Our friends at NPR did some great data reporting on semi-automatic weapons and background checks, which David Eads followed up with some useful scraping techniques to help others do the same.
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Settling for Misconduct: The INN Nerds worked closely with data journalists from the Chicago Reporter to build a searchable database of Chicago's police misconduct lawsuits – lawsuits that have cost the city more than $210 million between 2012 and 2015. Explore the app and the rest of the series on chicagoreporter.com.
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SOME OTHER STUFF
Gather ye rosebuds
COOK: Chicken Tikka Masala – the national dish of Britain?
LISTEN: New York fuzz-rock trio Jackal Onasis released their debut EP.
READ: The End of All Things, John Scalzi's collection of sci-fi novellas full of "thrilling adventure scenes, politics, snarky commentary and food for thought."
WATCH: An oldie but goodie, The Corgi Flop. This never gets old.
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P.S. FWIW, DDJ FTW translates roughly to, "data-driven journalism, for the win."