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Laura Hazard OwenOctober 31, 2019

For Patch, local sex offender maps are a Halloween tradition

Critics say they spike fear levels in their communities unnecessarily. But they do well on Facebook.

Audio archiving, public meeting tracking, and more local boosts: Here are the 34 news projects Google is funding in North America

“We repeatedly observed the same needs in our various circles of journalists of color.” This guide starts to address those needs in one place

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 12, 2019

Good stuff first: Google moves to prioritize original reporting in search

The company has changed its global search algorithm to “highlight articles that we identify as significant original reporting,” and to keep such articles in top positions for longer.

Matthew Weber, Peter Andringa, and Philip M. NapoliSeptember 12, 2019

Researchers analyzed more than 300,000 local news stories on Facebook. Here’s what they found.

“59 percent of the stories we were able to categorize served a critical information need…Aside from critical information needs, 31 percent of stories categorized covered sports and 9 percent were obituaries.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 28, 2019

“We realized Spotify for news was exactly the wrong thing to do.” Here’s what Kinzen is doing instead

“We can give more power to the user to tell the publisher what they really want.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 26, 2019

Every crime map needs context. This USC data journalism project aims to scale it

“When we do a story looking at 18 different commuting routes, we’ve created 18 different stories, in a way — we’ve created a story with 18 distinct audiences.”

Google Search will now show you podcast episodes (but it won’t have to link back to Google Podcasts)

Christine SchmidtJuly 25, 2019

How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020

“We’re not super-interested in telling a story about one Iowa county using this infrastructure. But we’re making sure our reporters know which county in Iowa to go if they’re looking for one that has particular characteristics.”

Google is redesigning the News tab, prioritizing context and publisher names

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