journalism
In this video, veteran technology journalist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols tells us precisely how a self-proclaimed "English and history guy" makes a career writing about Linux.
Red Hat intern Taylor Greene explains how journalistic training is perfect preparation for a career in open source.
In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at KDE Plasma Mobile, Spreedbox secure video conferencing platform, NPR's open source newsroom tools, and more.
Calling all data geeks and journalists! Testing is now open on DocHive, an open source Ruby on Rails project for capturing data from image-based PDFs.
Development projects are expensive, and, across the board, news media are struggling to properly monetize their digital investments, and revenues are being squeezed relentlessly. Even the biggest names with generous resources can come unstuck to the tune of tens of millions, often with nothing to... Read more
Open source tools give journalism organizations and journalists on a limited budget the ability to get the information that they need.
One profession that's embraced open source is journalism. Especially the area of data journalism. In this interview, data journalist and co-founder of Journalism++ discusses the advantages to using open source software for data journalism and the potential pitfalls of open data.
In February of this year, I reported that the Raleigh Public Record—a local, online news publication in Raleigh, NC—was in the process of creating an open source solution to extract data from PDFs. The problem many news journalists have is easily and quickly (which is very important given the... Read more
Churnalism US is a new web tool and browser extension that allows anyone to compare the news you read against existing content to uncover possible instances of plagiarism. It is a joint project with the Media Standards Trust.
A group of journalists are announcing the launch of their breakthrough open source solution for the problem many writers and journalists have of how to take data in PDFs or images and easily convert it to a spreadsheet or other usable format.
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