HOT LINKS
What we're reading this week
Adam: HTTPS is hard.
Ben: Pausing the CSS stuff for a week to ask: What is journalism’s rallying flag? What unites journalists as a tribe? (a long and philosophical read)
Jack: More than 40 percent of Americans say they are open to buying digital newspaper subscriptions, according to one recent study. Molly de Aguiar and Josh Stearns say we can convince them to pay for news by building relationships with individuals and doing journalism that adds value to their lives.
Julia: For all our satellite imagery nerd-friends: NASA released nearly 3 million images of Earth, for free. The data is available here.
Ryan: 18F's open source presence is strong; America is strong. Take your pick from this list of 35 open source projects from 18F, grouped by how each is meant to help make your life easier.
Sinduja: Almost 70% of Reddit users (likely to be young, male and liberal) get their news from Reddit itself. A fascinating piece from the Pew research center on the role of Reddit in the 2016 presidential race.
Bert: The future is terrifying.
BE OUR GUEST
This week's guest contributor
Our guest this week is Alexandra Kanik (@act_rational), Metrics Editor at MediaShift.
Let Lindsey Cook (@lindzcook) and Ashlyn Still (@ashlynstill) explain programming to you like you were a 5th grader. *Bonus* sick info graphics:
BONUS LINK! If you're not quite sure if what you're doing is business appropriate... ask Business Cat.
SHOUT OUT
Work we admire by our journalism peers
The Marshall Project launched an impressive new hub for criminal justice reporting and wrote about how they built it.
Also, congrats to all the winners of this year's IRE awards (including a number of INN members)!
WE MADE A THING
Our projects, manifest
Julia was out in SF this week at the latest SNDMakes event. Her team's project, Babbage, is a low-hassle matching service that structures and schedules half-hour online feedback sessions for projects or career advice.
GET A JOB
Good jobs with good people
KPCC is hiring a developer to focus on digital audio workflow and a dev/ops engineer.
BuzzFeed opened applications for the latest round of their open lab fellowships.
SOME OTHER STUFF
Gather ye rosebuds
LISTEN: Merle Haggard sings Working Man Blues.
LISTEN: Merle Haggard does his impressions of Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Buck Owens and Johnny Cash.
LISTEN: Merle Haggard chills at home and sings three Jimmie Rodgers tunes.
LISTEN: We'll miss you, Merle.
Spring is here. Time to mow the lawn.
