Open Journalism

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…

In the second half of March, 20 news organizations created or opened 26 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released gas-ssi-toolkit, the source code for their SSI Toolkit, a Google Sheets add-on…

In the first two weeks of March, 18 news organizations created or opened 21 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights IRE/NICAR released both the backend and frontend for the new archive.ire.org site. It’s…

For most of the 2010s, newsroom technologists got into a good habit: They shared their work. They put data and code on GitHub and wrote lengthy blog posts explaining how they did…

In the second half of February, 10 news organizations created or opened 12 public repositories on GitHub. Many were tied to the NICAR 2026 conference in Indianapolis. Highlights MuckRock released klaxon-extension, a Chrome extension…

In the first two weeks of February, 10 news organizations created or opened 14 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights CBS News released pinpoint-multi-search, which lets journalists search across multiple Epstein Files document collections simultaneously…

In the second half of January, eight news organizations created or opened 13 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released rx-inspector-data, the dataset behind their Rx Inspector tool, which for the first time connects generic prescription…

In the first two full weeks of the year, 16 news organizations created or opened 28 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights Inside Climate News published the data and R code behind their investigation into how the…