Category: journalism

To Find Photos in Our Archive, We Taught the CMS How to Read

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Chris Frank

Illustration by Simone Noronha Imagine you’re a photo editor at The New York Times. It’s early evening, a few hours before

Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back… and other things I learned recording her DevJourney

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Tim Bourguignon

Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back. After interviewing her for the DevJourney podcast, here are

How to Dox Yourself on the Internet

Posted on February 27, 2020 by The NYT Open Team

A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet. Illustration by Jo Zixuan Zhou By Kristen Kozinski

How Do People Decide Whether to Trust a Photo on Social Media?

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Emily Saltz

We asked 34 readers how they judge credibility of news photos. Illustration by Keith Negley This is part one of a behind-the-scenes

Can Publishers Use Metadata to Regain the Public’s Trust in Visual Journalism?

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Sasha Koren

The News Provenance Project has been exploring how news organizations might contribute to the fight against misinformation by adding context. Illustration

What If Every News Photo on Social Media Showed Contextual Information?

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Emily Saltz

We built a prototype to help readers judge the credibility of photos on social media. Illustration by Keith Negley This is part

Looking Forward to 2020, Here are 10 Themes for News

Posted on December 12, 2019 by The Times Open Team

By Kourtney Bitterly, Meg Fee and Thomas Mitchell Illustration by Molly Fairhust How are people using established and emerging technology? How do

It’s All Part of the Plan

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Angela Guo

How The New York Times designed a planning tool as part of their CMS to help streamline newsroom workflow. The

What If We Used Images to Navigate New York Times Content?

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Romello Goodman

An experiment made during The New York Times’s Maker Week that presents photos as the main way to browse Times content.

How BuzzFeed’s Tech Team Helps Journalists Report On Technology With Authority

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Logan McDonald

Reporter: Is anyone around to take a quick look at some code on codepen and help me understand what it does?