Team hustle put the Los Angeles News Group out front in coverage of the sex abuse scandal that engulfed the Los Angeles Archdiocese.
Read Full PostDeath is always a difficult topic to approach, both in journalism and everyday life. That’s why Dai Sugano and Lisa Krieger’s ongoing Cost of Dying series at the San Jose Mercury News is such an impressive work of journalism, and more than worthy of a DFMie.
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Journalists at The Daily Camera, in Boulder, and the Longmont Times-Call took their coverage of local holiday lights to the next level.
Read Full PostViktoria Sundqvist got off to a good start in her new job as investigations editor for the Middletown Press and Register Citizen in Torrington, Conn.: She won a DFMie on her first project.
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The Thunderdome data team explains what went into the playoff prediction interactive it produced in collaboration with the sports desk.
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Back in November, the staff at Thunderdome gathered together to craft a mission statement (“to empower local newsrooms”) and enumerate our shared values as a news organization. Now the data team is ready to unveil its own manifesto.
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Last week, our Thunderdome data team launched an interactive database to accompany a group of stories for Digital First Media’s Connecticut papers. The project examined disparity in public school superintendent salaries. We wanted to walk our readers through the reporting and data collection, as well as the building of the map and database framework that sprang from the stories.
Read Full PostOne of the many exciting aspects of Project Thunderdome is its commitment to building engaging interactive news applications and empowering our local newsrooms to pursue strong data stories. Now that our data team here is at full strength, we thought this would be a good time to introduce ourselves.
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Investigative reporter Tom Peele spent more than two years building a database of public employee salaries and benefits. Last month provided Tom a chance to show the San Jose Mercury’s web and print audience just what that database can do.
In a time of dwindling newsrooms, the significant energy and resources put into this project helped expose a practice of ‘double-dipping’ among public employees who drew pensions from one municipality while receiving salaries from another.
Across the country, Digital First newsrooms endorsed candidates in the most recent U.S. elections. Thunderdome Data Editor Tom Meagher worked with editors to compile this map of presidential endorsements, which illustrates the scope of MediaNews Group and Journal Register Company’s geographic reach.
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