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Scott KleinApril 7, 2016

Want to start a small data journalism team in your newsroom? Here are 8 steps

“There are a bunch of skills needed in building news apps, but at the most abstract level they fall into three buckets: Code, Design, and Journalism. Recruit people who have at least two of those skills and be willing to teach them the third.”

Fumbling toward messaging apps

“It will require a willingness of media outlets to experiment, blindly, with content and formats specifically for messenger apps without the clarity of referral data.” Caira Conner

Time to get serious about chat apps

“For users, why worry of a more feudal Internet when you can send amazing stickers to select groups of friends? For publishers, you get a direct connection with an untapped audience, with your updates dinging on their phones.” Elise Hu

The AP will build out data partnerships with local newsrooms with $400,000 from Knight

Justin EllisAugust 20, 2015

ProPublica expands news apps and networked reporting with new funding from Knight Foundation

With $2.2 million in new funding from Knight, ProPublica will increase its Get Involved network, measure the success of news apps, and hold trainings for journalists.

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 19, 2015

Messaging and chat apps continue their rise in popularity, especially among young people

“The results in this report reflect the noteworthy and rapid emergence of different kinds of communications tools serving different social needs. These new tools add to an already complex and varied terrain of online and mobile interaction.”

Ken DoctorAugust 17, 2015

Newsonomics: Why native apps still matter in the Age of Distribution

Social distribution and the open web generate huge numbers — but readers who use news organizations’ native smartphone apps are far more loyal and engaged. In today’s economics of news, those readers are paying more of the bills.

Justin EllisJuly 22, 2015

The new Knight News Challenge winners want to make voting easier and election data clearer

The Des Moines Register, the Associated Press, and WNYC are among organizations receiving a total of $3.2 million for projects designed to increase voter turnout and develop more tools to analyze campaign finance disclosures.

Want to make it easier to build news apps quickly? Vox Media has opensourced its solution, Autotune

Joseph LichtermanJune 2, 2015

How a group of researchers tried to use social media data and algorithms to find breaking news

Using geotagged Instagram data, CityBeat tries — often unsuccessfully or belatedly — to find breaking news.