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By: Jason Bartz

Not sure this counts as a ‘wiki’ but Yuri Victor mentioned this, and some people on this Stack have contributed: Tools for news

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By: Serdar Tumgoren

A few years back some folks from the NICAR list-serv (I believe it was Derek Willis) started a site called the Reporter’s Cookbook. It includes info on basic computer-assisted reporting tools such as...

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By: Christopher Groskopf

Not to be pedantic, but isn’t this that site? The only substantive difference I can see is that instead of arbitrarily choosing questions to write answers for the questions are posed as they are...

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By: Derek Willis

Why has it petered out? Serdar explains pretty well: “There are a few nice gems on there but I don’t think the site ever gained a wide following.” No wide following leads to a lack of commitment from...

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By: Jeff Larson

Yes, yes for the love of Harry Nilsson yes. For awhile now I’ve wanted to create a news specific “Hey, here’s the thing I did I did today” wiki like github gists that collected cool stuff people wrote...

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By: Burt Herman

I think that this site is indeed the news wiki where questions will be answered. One thing that Aron, Rich and I have thought about that could be extremely useful — should we set up our own...

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By: kevinkoehler

First of all, +1 on everything Chrys said. Having been to probably too many conferences about the Future of Journalism, I agree there is a serious lack of meetings where people come away with new...

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By: Chris Amico

Call it a combination boot camp/code sprint/demo-a-thon. For people just getting started (which, as Kevin says, is all of us in some area), very hands-on, ground-up training. Coming in knowing a...

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