I’ve recently been asked by a few people how to find out more about the data journalism scene. Here’s a list of sites with active feeds and discussions, as well as a few links to examples of their content:

• NICAR-L: the mailing list for the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporters and, as far as I know, the most active mailing list in journalism. The audience is a mix of old-school investigative journalists and data scientists and newsroom developers. Obviously, NICAR’s blog is also a great destination for data journalism inspiration
  • How the Sun Sentinel reported its Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of off-duty cops
  • How the Los Angeles Times turned an anonymous tip into a front-page story
  • Philip Meyer Awards
  • Chrys Wu’s list of tutorials and links from the NICAR 2015 conference
• Sunlight Foundation Blog - the work they do in open data and transparency is too hard to count. The blog is a great way to catch up on all that they do and find real-world examples of using data for government accountability.
  • OpenFEC makes campaign finance data more accessible with new API: Here’s how to get started
  • Why are states replacing email with flawed web forms for contacting lawmakers?
  • Outside groups’ influence on 2016 election grows, super PAC filings show
  • Much of Northrop Grumman’s Washington influence flies under the radar
• source.opennews.org - a partnership between Mozilla Foundation and the Knight Foundation focused on the “journalism code and the people who make it.” There’s countless great in-depth writeups about the process of data journalism.
  • Distrust Your Data
  • Sane Data Updates are Harder Than You Think
  • Anatomy of the “Living Apart” Map
  • When and How to Use Census Microdata
• NewsNerdery - “An international meta organization to foster news nerd collaboration and knowledge sharing” – has a lot of the same audience from NICAR-L, butmore focused on the web development/engineering side. Its main participation is its Slack channel; just message one of the moderators on the homepage to get in.
  • A repo of community documentation for news nerdery
• 18F.gsa.gov/blog - 18F is part of the U.S. Digital Service and is driving a lot of the federal government’s open source work, particularly in web development and data architecture.
  • How a two-day sprint moved an agency twenty years forward
  • Building a new College Scorecard with students
  • How we built analytics.usa.gov
  • A complete list of .gov domains
• Hacks/Hackers - a worldwide group for journalists interested in hacking and hackers interested in journalism. Each chapter does its own thing while having the same mission.
  • Bay Area chapter
  • New York chapter
  • Buenos Aires chapter
  • Berlin chapter
• Hacker News - this started off as being a Reddit-like site focused on the Silicon Valley startup scene but because of the sheer size of its audience, has probably the most active discussion on data journalism projects. Even if the site didn’t have a such a wide variety of topics, it’s probably the best place to learn (and argue) about the latest development trends and technologies.
  • Highest upvoted submissions in the last few days
  • List of “Show HN” submissions
  • Discussions of links from propublica.org
  • Discussions of links from nytimes.com