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Eman Shurbaji in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Dec 17, 2014

Photo narratives

Defining picture stories, essays and packages

Al Jazeera’s September photo essay of child amputees in Syria gave me a new perspective on the traumas caused by Syria’s ongoing war. I’d seen photos of unrest in the region before, but seeing a…

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Knight Lab in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Oct 7, 2014

Five mini programming projects for the Python beginner

NOTE: Originally published on knightlab.northwestern.edu by former student fellow Shelly Tan.

Learning a new programming language is both the most exciting and the most humbling experience. For me, that…

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Abigail Thorpe in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Dec 17, 2014

Timeline: Evolution of visual storytelling

From cave paintings to web images of Justin Bieber gone…

Jade Kolker in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Dec 17, 2014

What is photo editing?

Everyone makes a series of decisions before publishing pictures

Have you ever found yourself cropping a photo to highlight the most interesting part of it?

David Kellogg in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Dec 28, 2015

Journalism’s Education Problem: Extracting Information from News

Lessons from a close reading of the New York Times’ climate coverage

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Megan Dawson in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Dec 17, 2014

Outside the image

Captions. Credits. Geo. Metadata. There is a lot more to understanding a picture than the picture itself.

In storytelling, visuals are the nervous system. From illustrations to photographic…

Knight Lab in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Oct 7, 2014

Five data scraping tools for would-be data journalists

NOTE: Originally published on knightlab.northwestern.edu by former student fellow Shelly Tan.

This past Fall, I spent time with the NPR News Apps team (now known as NPR Visuals) coding up some projects, working…

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Nicole Zhu in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Feb 12, 2016

Why you should do a news designathon

It’s really just 2–3 days of putting a bunch of smart people in a…

Knight Lab in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Oct 7, 2014

GitHub makes Portfolio sites for journalists cheap and (kinda) easy

Here’s how to build one

GitHub makes portfolio sites cheap and (kinda) easy

Suyeon Son in Ideas: Journalism + Tech

Apr 2, 2015

How the git mergetool solved my anxiety, fears, and most importantly, my merge conflicts

Back in March, another student fellow Nicole Zhu and I worked on a team challenge for which we were the primary coders. One day, she emailed me:

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