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“If you like podcasts and computer-assisted investigative journalism you might enjoy this podcast feed of audio recordings from the 2024, 2025, and 2026 NICAR conferences.” - @john
https://github.com/bcks/nicar
#NICAR26 #DDJ

GitHub - bcks/nicar: An unofficial podcast of NICAR 2024 session recordings

An unofficial podcast of NICAR 2024 session recordings - bcks/nicar

GitHub

Alexander Howard Mar 20

AgendaWatch.org “collects public meeting documents from official government and agency websites and makes them searchable.” #OpenGov #DDJ

Agenda Watch

Sharon Machlis Mar 16

From @kleinmatic: “I'm launching a site and newsletter to track and celebrate open-work culture in news. I'll be posting bi-weekly updates on the best new open source projects from the 350+ newsrooms we track. First issue is here: “
https://openjournalism.news/2026/03/15/open-journalism-update-march-1-14-2026/
#DDJ #OpenSource

Open Journalism Update: March 1–14, 2026

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 si…

Open Journalism

Sharon Machlis Mar 14

Now both the front end and back end for Investigative Reporters & Editors' new semantic-searchable archives -- unveiled at #NICAR26 -- have been open sourced 🎉🎉
Front end (SvelteKit): https://github.com/ireapps/ire-archive-frontend
Back end (FastAPI): https://github.com/ireapps/ire-archive-backend
#DDJ

GitHub - ireapps/ire-archive-frontend: SvelteKit frontend for archive.ire.org

SvelteKit frontend for archive.ire.org. Contribute to ireapps/ire-archive-frontend development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Sharon Machlis Mar 6

25 free resources, presentations & tip sheets so far added to my searchable table of #NICAR26 materials, including
10 Things you Didn't Know You Could Do in R
AI Glossary for Journalists
Decoding Deportation Data
https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/nicar20_resources/
Plus lots from prior yrs
##RStats #Python #GenAI #DDJ

Sharon Machlis Mar 5

R folks listening to this morning's #NICAR26 session on extracting data from documents and - importantly! - how to check your results: You can set up and run evaluations of LLM results with the {vitals} #rstats 📦
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4130274/how-to-choose-the-best-llm-using-r-and-vitals.html #DDJ

How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals

Use the vitals package with ellmer to evaluate and compare the accuracy of LLMs, including writing evals to test local models.

InfoWorld

Sharon Machlis Mar 5

RE: https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/116176285413735482

This looks like it will be a very cool resource for data journalism ⬇️⬇️⬇️
You need to be an Investigative Reporters & Editors member to access. Announced at the #NICAR26 data journalism conference #DDJ

Sharon Machlis Feb 19

Seen online: ProPublica is hiring a data reporter, 5 yrs data journalism exp req'd. Salary $110K-$135K. Knowledge of Python or #RStats.
US remote or option to work in NY, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix or Berkeley
More info:
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4646966006
#DDJ #JournalismJobs

Data Reporter

Remote, United States

Alexander Howard Jan 24

An interesting chart about how Members of the House of Representatives voted on funding the Department of Homeland Security by @[email protected] that shows, instead of tells. Great column on AI featuring @[email protected] + more data visualizations this week: www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-robots-h... #ddj

cutterkom Jan 22

Since November 2025, DuckDB databases have built-in encryption. This is great news for IT-security in data journalism.

A short post on how to work with an encrypted @duckdb in R:
https://katharinabrunner.de/2026/01/how-to-use-an-encrypted-duckdb-in-r/

The main difference is that you don't connect directly via the path, but first to an in-memory database and then ATTACH the encrypted file with the encryption key.

#duckdb #rstats #ddj