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Northwestern University Knight Lab is working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces. 🏚 to TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, SoundCite, & JuxtaposeJS

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Joined February 2011
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  1. Jun 28

    Knight Lab’s wrote about the process of building our awesome student AR/VR community 👉

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  2. Jun 25

    Check out our Soundcite tool integrated into this ProPublica /Wired story (but only on ProPublica’s version not Wired’s)

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  3. Jun 10

    🎓 Graduating Knight Lab student fellow Victoria Cabales gave *us* a present: this article about newsgames 🕹

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    May 24

    nifty juxtaposes (boss drone pilot sold separately)

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    Llano River flooding washed away the Ranch Road 2900 bridge in October. It reopens today. Story and drone photos by and :
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    May 24

    New working prototype of , optimized 1st for mobile in portrait mode, updated events, + sketches for seeing the future. Thx to the for inspiration (I use their TimelineJS often) + their google sheet schema.

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  6. May 20

    This AP story about tensions between US and Iran includes a history of Iran’s nuclear program told through a customized version of our TimelineJS tool. (isn’t open source cool?)

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    May 16

    Designed for disruption, this class sets out to remodel local news 📰

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    May 16

    THIS is one reason why it's so important to have professional events with no alcohol. And it's why, for 2 years running, a group has planned a non-alcoholic event at NICAR

    A pullquote from the linked newsletter: “Just holding a beer bottle increased perceptions of intoxication and sexual availability for women.” — Jeanine Skorinko, a psychology researcher and author of a recent study about women and alcohol
    ‘Cause we needed more this week. 🤬⚔️ “Women, Alcohol and Perceived ‘Sexual Availability’”, via and ’s excellent newsletter, ‘In Her Words’.
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  9. May 10

    ICYMI: a nice writeup about our current work with the to explore product possibilities for local news, mixing curricular and extracurricular work

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    May 9

    Northwestern’s new class, in cooperation with , uses design principles to try to improve local journalism. It’s a rethinking, not just a tweaking, of local news as it now exists.

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  11. May 1

    🎊🎉 for , Northwestern’s first professor hired in the Computer Science + Journalism initiative, on being named a Microsoft Faculty Fellow

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  12. May 1

    With the restoration of Google’s spreadsheet access service, we believe timelines should be working normally. If your timeline is not working, complete the form at — as always, include the URL of your Google spreadsheet and as much detail as possible.

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  13. Apr 30

    At this time, at least some timelines are working as usual without making the above changes. If yours still is not working, please try the workaround above (share with “anyone with the link can view”); if by tomorrow neither is working, let us know at

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  14. Apr 30

    Meanwhile, Google is attempting a rollback to the breaking change. If that succeeds, old timelines should work with no changes. 2/2

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  15. Apr 30

    We have implemented a workaround for the TimelineJS issue. It requires going to Google Sheets and “sharing” the sheet with the “anyone with the link can view” setting. 1/2

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  16. Apr 30

    Google Issue tracker for the problem affecting TimelineJS: While we wait for that to be resolved, we are developing our own fix. If it works, no data would be lost, but each spreadsheet owner would need to take action to re-enable the related timeline.

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  17. Apr 29

    Because of an error with Google’s Spreadsheet feed API, most timelines are not working. We are aware of this situation and can only wait for Google to fix it. Please do not submit support requests about this issue. We will make an announcement here when the issue is resolved.

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    Apr 16

    I’m giving a lightning talk about open source software and working on Library at tonight’s Open Lab at the ! There will be Potbelly sandwiches.

    A few years ago, we built a collaborative documentation site using the Google Drive API for The Times newsroom. Today, you can deploy your own using Heroku, Google App Engine or Docker.
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    Apr 12

    How the consultants at worked with Northwestern's and the Medill Local News Initiative to better understand today's news audiences.

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  20. Apr 11

    Knight Lab’s talked about AR & VR on the podcast

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