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Open Journalism Update: July 12–25, 2026
Over the past fortnight, 13 news organizations published 18 new open-source repositories — a run of data projects and trackers alongside a notable cluster of tools built for, and with, AI coding…
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Open Journalism Update: June 28–July 11, 2026
A little late this week, as I’m writing from vacation in the Adirondacks. First, in case you missed it: earlier this month I published a standalone piece on Schibsted’s Videofy, the most-starred…
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The Most-Starred Newsroom Project of the Year (So Far)
Note: If you’re interested in open source and heading to SRCCON in Minneapolis next week, be sure to check out Emilia Ruzicka and Joe Germuska’s session on the subject: “Putting the Open…
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Open Journalism Update: June 14–27, 2026
More than a dozen news organizations opened public repositories on GitHub during the past fortnight. Highlights below. Highlights Three newsrooms, Lighthouse Reports, Wired, and The Independent, published the data and analysis behind…
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Open Journalism Update: May 31–June 13, 2026
In the past two weeks, more than a dozen news organizations opened or created public repositories on GitHub. Highlights below. Highlights The Pudding published the code and data behind “A Love Story”,…
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Open Journalism Update: May 17–30, 2026
In the past two weeks, a dozen news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Highlights below. Highlights Deutsche Welle published the data, code, and methodology behind its analysis of pesticide…
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Vibe Coding Is Growing Fast in Newsrooms, Too
This weekend I dug into my database of open-source GitHub repositories to see how frequently newsrooms are leaving behind signals that they’re coding with an AI agent (a.k.a. “vibe coding”). Here’s what…
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Open Journalism Update: April 26 – May 16, 2026
I’ve been traveling a bunch and skipped a regularly scheduled post, so this is a three-week roundup. In that time, 23 news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Note: I’m…
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Open Journalism Update: April 12 – April 25, 2026
It was a pretty quiet fortnight: 13 news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Highlights USA Today published a freezing-days analysis covering 1956–2025 daily minimum temperature data, finding that 255…
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Open Journalism Update: March 29 – April 11, 2026
In the past two weeks, 16 news organizations created or opened 19 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released a Creative Commons licensed dataset of 4,700+ federal court cases from New Mexico…