Digital First Media was the first news organization to build a national database for analyzing premium costs on the health insurance exchanges set up as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Here’s how, and why, we did it.
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Dispatches from Digital First Media staff in attendance at this year’s #NICAR14 conference.
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As Digital First Media works to “unbolt” our newsrooms from print processes and culture, we need a vision of the “unbolted” newsroom. Steve Buttry outlines the six core characteristics.
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Readers of Michigan’s Digital First Media newspapers have known for years that they could count on reporter Paula Pasche for in-depth and timely coverage of the Detroit Lions. Now readers across the entire Digital First Media landscape know her for her NFL prediction powers as well.
Read Full PostOver the past few months, Thunderdome Data Editor Tom Meagher has been chatting with journalists around the company about DocumentCloud and how it can help you turn that pile of papers under your desk into one hell of a story.
Recently, Tom sat down with the folks on our Michigan data team to chat about DocumentCloud and its killer features. We captured the demonstration in this video.
Did we whet your appetite? Dig into these resources to learn more about working with DocumentCloud.
Have you used DocumentCloud for a story yet? We’d love to see what you’ve done with it. Leave us a comment or mention us on Twitter at @dfmdata.
Now that our Digital First Represents contestants have completed dozens of online classes and pitched the investigative projects they hope to pursue, we’re ready to announce the winners of our Digital First Represents #NICAR14 contest.
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Forget about drones and Google Glass for a minute. Annette Arrigucci explores the possibilities of four tech trends that can make a difference in newsrooms right now.
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Pins on a map. That’s what probably comes to most people’s minds when they think of what has come to be known as a “crime map,” an online tool for displaying crimes that have occurred over a specific timeframe in a geographic area, usually a city or a county.
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A couple weeks ago, members of Thunderdome’s data team headed to the Global Editors Network Editors’ Lab at the New York Times to wrestle with how to turn news storytelling into a game.
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