Scott Klein
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Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.
“Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling... It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. “Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
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Prison Journalism Project@prisonjournalism.bsky.social · last wk.News: Our summer campaign concludes tomorrow at midnight, which means time is rapidly running out to take advantage of the $15K matching funds provided by generous donors. Thanks to an additional $5K gift from a generous donor, every donation will now be tripled until those funds are exhausted.
I was going through some old email and found this note from my boss in 2005. Apparently we were a half hour late relaunching our website and gawker wrote a snarky post about it. We had to come up with ways to entertain ourselves before social media, y'all.
Very excited to be opening the sf work/shop for this fall. Applications are open now: everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf
speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes
A creative gathering to imagine the future of work.
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Claude's brand new /dataviz skill. This is from a simple 11-word prompt in the midst of a context-rich project. Not bad for a first go (for either of us).
Extra issue of the Open Journalism newsletter: The Most-Starred Project of the Year (So Far) openjournalism.news/2026/07/01/t...
The Most-Starred Newsroom Project of the Year (So Far)
Note: If you’re interested in open source and heading to SRCCON in Minneapolis next week, be sure to check out Emilia Ruzicka and Joe Germuska’s session on the subject: “Putting t…
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New Open Journalism Update: The Guardian releases the data behind its investigation into rising apartment fees, and @peteraldhous.com uses @dwillis.bsky.social Congressional press release data on a story about climate change. openjournalism.news/2026/06/29/o...
Open Journalism Update: June 14–27, 2026
More than a dozen news organizations opened public repositories on GitHub during the past fortnight. Highlights below. Highlights Three newsrooms, Lighthouse Reports, Wired, and The Independent, pu…
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Vance is trolling @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."
New Data Journalism Podcast: We talk with Ben Welsh about how newsroom open-source culture declined and how we bring it back. We get into GitHub, showing your work, and how vibe coding will change everything. Listen, then go open source something. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
The Data Journalism Podcast • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Hosts Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers and Scott Klein will explore the latest in data journalism. You will meet the world’s top data journalists - and you will find out how they do what they do. Subscrib...
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New Open Journalism Update: Highlights include Kuroi, an LLM-powered PDF redaction tool from @icij.org; ICE use-of-force records from the Washington Post; and a Bellingcat tool that finds satellite imagery of specific ships. openjournalism.news/2026/05/18/o...
Open Journalism Update: April 26 – May 16, 2026
I’ve been traveling a bunch and skipped a regularly scheduled post, so this is a three-week roundup. In that time, 23 news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Note: I’m b…
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About a third of public GitHub repos created by newsrooms in 2026 carry at least one visible signal of AI coding agents. The real number is certainly higher. Full writeup: openjournalism.news/2026/05/18/v...
Horace Greeley. 19th century newspaper publisher. A founder of Republican Party. Gadfly and what we’d now call a “public intellectual.” Peevish critic of Lincoln from the left. Posted bail for Jefferson Davis. Presidential candidate for the Democrats. Lost so bad he died. Cast Mark Proksch.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3mo agoName a person who should have a biopic
Honest question for NYC tourists: Why do knick-knack shops that sell tiny Statue of Liberty figurines and novelty t-shirts also sell luggage? Did y'all buy so much stuff here you need another bag, unexpectedly? No shade.
Google contains multitudes. It’s always been both a partner and a competitor.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social · 4mo agoGoogle’s attempts to repackage news are encroaching on publishers. As a cofounder of WTF Is SEO?, an industry newsletter, has observed: “A growing sentiment is that Google is not a partner but a competitor.” @cj-robinson.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/t...
New Open Journalism Update: Highlights include coJournalist, an OSINT monitoring platform from Buried Signals; a court records dataset from @propublica.org; and a tool from PRX that detects Emergency Alert System tones in audio files. openjournalism.news/2026/04/13/o...
Open Journalism Update: March 29 – April 11, 2026
In the past two weeks, 16 news organizations created or opened 19 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released a Creative Commons licensed dataset of 4,700+ federal court cases fro…
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Join us for another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. This week’s guest star: “couch rights”!
Moments like this demand that we remember our real enemy: New York Times headline writers.
New pod! Live from the NICAR conference, we talk to @andreasuozzo.com and @fresques.bsky.social from ProPublica about their project "Life of a Mother." Get a behind-the-scenes look at their work -- and some NICAR FOMO. Available wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Happy April Fool's Day from Mr. Chatterbox, a model trained on 28,000 Victorian-era texts from the British Library...
I got this working in LibreChat.
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 4mo agoMr. Chatterbox is a really fun project. It's not great to talk to but it's a fun demo of what you can build using entirely out-of-copyright training data It's a 2GB nanochat model - I released a new llm-mrchatterbox plugin that can run it on my Mac simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/...
🚨 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: openjournalism.news/2026/03/15/o...
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…
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