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*(at some point I'll separate this document into a proper spreadsheet, rather than just a bunch of lists of links)*

# The Collaborative Journalism Handbook

A guide of best practices and case studies for modern collaborative and crowdsourced journalism.

The impetus for writing the *Collaborative Journalism Handbook* comes from the need to document the variety of scaleable, transparent, and wide-ranging journalism and best practices made possible by the Internet and collaborative software, similar to how the [Data Journalism Handbook](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/) is the go-to reference for learning about the practice and people of data journalism.

Like the DJH, the *Collaborative Journalism Handbook* will be open-source and published online. Are you a collaborating journalist? Then fork this repo and add all the interesting content that's in my head.

## Proposed topics tentatively

- Introduction: history of news org competition and collaboration
- Trust, financial, cultural, and other institutional factors etc.
- The costs and downsides of collaboration
- How to initiate a collaboration or crowdsourced campaign.
- Hello spreadsheets
- Using spreadsheets as a collaborative interface for organizing the data and reporting
- Data entry: everyone's doin it!
- The joy of plaintext and structured text
- Divide and conquer
- Best practices for team collaboration
- Best practices for inter-organization collaboration
- Security practices
- Crowdsourcing and MEchanical Turk
- Newsrooms and open-source development
- The fear of losing the scoop
- How to encourage and learn from citizen journalism
- Case studies
  - Election Land
  - Trump White House Records
  - [Lost Mothers](https://www.propublica.org/article/lost-mothers-maternal-health-died-childbirth-pregnancy) 
  - Dollars for Docs
  - Fatal Encounters / Fatal Force
  - Homicide Watch
  - Panama Papers
  - [Luxombourg Leaks](https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks)
  
- Software tools and services overview
  - Google Drive
  - Dropbox
  - Dropbox Paper/Etherpad
  - Slack
  - Github  
  
## Random examples

- [http://www.pennlive.com/watchdog/2017/09/defying_the_odds_part_1.html](http://www.pennlive.com/watchdog/2017/09/defying_the_odds_part_1.html) - Newspapers nationwide, and Columbia's journalism program, replicate a 2014 Florida investigation into lottery winnings across all the other states.
    - related: [A nationwide reporting adventure tracks improbably frequent lottery winners](https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/lottery-winners-foia-reporting.php)
- [The story of ProPublica’s maternal mortality series and its structured call-out to the crowd](http://www.storybench.org/story-propublicas-maternal-mortality-series-structured-call-crowd/)
- [How We’re Learning To Do Journalism Differently in the Age of Trump](https://www.propublica.org/article/how-were-learning-to-do-journalism-differently-in-the-age-of-trump)
- ["Competition Be Damned"](https://source.opennews.org/articles/news-nerds-against-pdfs/) How reporters at the Washington Post, New York Times, ProPublica, and more self-organized to free trapped FEC data)
- [Using social media to spark enthusiasm among fans and crowdsource participants](https://twitter.com/ProPublica/status/859156075156836352)
- [Introducing Tabula](https://source.opennews.org/articles/introducing-tabula/)
- [ProPublica, The New York Times and the AP Are Up Late Sorting Through Trump Admin Financial Disclosures](http://www.adweek.com/digital/propublica-the-new-york-times-and-the-ap-are-up-late-sorting-through-trump-admin-financial-disclosures/)
- [ProPublica Crowdsourcing Campaign Spending: What We Learned From Free the Files](https://www.propublica.org/article/crowdsourcing-campaign-spending-what-we-learned-from-free-the-files)
- [ProPublica and The New York Times hire ‘the best damn writer in Texas’](https://www.poynter.org/2017/propublica-and-the-new-york-times-hire-the-best-damn-writer-in-texas/452119/)
- [How three news outlets collaborated on the NSA files](https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-nytimes-guardian-and-propublica-collaborated-on-the-nsa-files/s2/a554585/)
- [Inside the Washington Post’s police shootings database: An oral history](https://medium.com/thewashingtonpost/inside-the-washington-post-s-police-shootings-database-an-oral-history-413121889529)
- [Meet the Man Who Spends 10 Hours a Day Tracking Police Shootings](http://www.gq.com/story/fatal-encounters-police-statistics-interview)
- [CrossCheck: Partnering with First Draft and newsrooms in the leadup to French elections](https://blog.google/topics/google-europe/crosscheck-first-draft-newsrooms-french-elections/)
- [Electionland: Monitoring access to the vote in real time](https://projects.propublica.org/electionland/)
- [Electionland is a New Standard For Journalism Education](https://medium.com/@simongalp/electionland-is-a-new-standard-for-journalism-education-425dd190706e)
- [The Google News Lab in 2016 and Where We're Headed](https://medium.com/google-news-lab/the-google-news-lab-in-2016-and-where-were-headed-17b16a8ee63d)
- [How We Made Losing Ground](https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-made-losing-ground/)
- [Introducing the ProPublica Reporting Network](https://www.propublica.org/article/introducing-the-propublica-reporting-network-520)
- [Doing distributed journalism with Amanda Michel and the ProPublica Reporting Network](https://maimonidesladder.com/2009/07/10/doing-distributed-journalism-with-amanda-michel-and-the-propublica-reporting-network/)
- [Crowdsourcing the Price of Water](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/case_studies_17.html)
- [Following the Money: Cross-Border Collaboration](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/in_the_newsroom_7.html)
- [How ICIJ got hundreds of journalists to collaborate on the Panama Papersnpr help identify faces at congress](https://www.poynter.org/2016/how-icij-got-hundreds-of-journalists-to-collaborate-on-the-panama-papers/405041/)
- [Turning The Camera Around: Health Care Stakeholders](http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2009/hearing-pano/)
- [David Fahrenthold goes from tweeting pictures of his notepad to winning a Pulitzer Prize](http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/david-fahrenthold-goes-from-tweeting-pictures-of-his-notepad-to-winning-a-pulitzer-prize/)
- [OpenElections: Certified election results. For Everyone](http://www.openelections.net/)
- [Panama Papers show the value of newsroom collaboration](https://www.cjr.org/hit_or_miss/panama_papers_show_the_value_of_newsroom_collaborations.php)
- [We broke the Panama Papers story. Here's how to investigate Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/24/panama-papers-media-investigation-next-donald-trump-hold-accountable)
- [BuzzFeedNews zika-data guide](https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/zika-data)
- [A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change](http://www.holovaty.com/writing/fundamental-change/)
- [Subverting the Story Model](https://source.opennews.org/articles/subverting-story-model/)
- [Source Guides to Working Together](https://source.opennews.org/guides/source-guide-working-together/)
- [Tow Center Guide to Crowdsourcing](https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/guide_to_crowdsourcing.php)
- [The Backstory of How the Pulitzer-Winning "Unbelievable Story of Rape" Came to Be](http://www.westword.com/news/the-backstory-of-how-the-pulitzer-winning-unbelievable-story-of-rape-came-to-be-8134322)
- [Podcast: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce](https://changelog.com/podcast/211)
- [Documenting Hate](https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/hatecrimes)
- [Cicada Tracker](https://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/)
- [NPR's Playgrounds for Everyone: A community-edited guide to accessible playgrounds](http://www.playgroundsforeveryone.com/)
- [Crowdsourcing a Public Records Audit](http://www.playgroundsforeveryone.com/)
- [7 lessons from BuzzFeed’s ‘FOIA-friendly newsroom’](https://www.poynter.org/2016/7-lessons-from-buzzfeeds-foia-friendly-newsroom/416733/)
- [We need collaboration in journalism now more than ever](https://www.poynter.org/2016/we-need-collaboration-in-journalism-now-more-than-ever/441391/)
- [Doubling Up Prisoners In 'Solitary' Creates Deadly Consequences](http://www.npr.org/2016/03/24/470824303/doubling-up-prisoners-in-solitary-creates-deadly-consequences)
- [Journalists around the world are working together more than ever. Here are 56 examples.](http://www.poynter.org/2017/journalists-around-the-world-are-working-together-more-than-ever-here-are-56-examples/455494/)
- [For Local NBC Stations, Collaborative Journalism](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/business/media/for-local-nbc-stations-collaborative-journalism.html)
- [NPR stations are collaborating more, and that’s a good thing](https://www.cjr.org/analysis/npr_collaboration.php)
- [The New Investigators](http://archives.cjr.org/feature/the_new_investigators.php)
- [A stunning scoop landed in my lap. Here’s why we looped in dozens of other newsrooms.](https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/panama-papers-partnership.php)
- [Joining Forces in the Name of Watchdog Journalism](http://niemanreports.org/articles/joining-forces/)
- [Spurring cross-border collaboration on journalism investigations in Latin America](http://ijnet.org/en/blog/spurring-cross-border-collaboration-journalism-investigations-latin-america)
- [Crowdsourcing can lead newspapers through buyout blues](http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/12/01/crowdsourcing-can-lead-newspapers-through-buyout-blues/)
- [Belingcat](https://www.bellingcat.com/)
- [Join our project to FOIA the Trump administration](https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/jan/17/help-us-foia-trump-administration/)
- [Why We’re Giving Away Our Reporting Recipe](https://www.propublica.org/article/why-were-giving-away-our-reporting-recipe-304)
- [A perpetual motion machine for investigative reporting: CPI and PRI partner on state corruption project](http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/a-perpetual-motion-machine-for-investigative-reporting-cpi-and-pri-partner-on-state-corruption-project/)
- [Journalism collaboration: How to work well with partners](http://www.newslab.org/2014/05/22/journalism-collaboration-how-to-work-well-with-partners/)
- [How to use Google Docs to Help Power Your Reporting](https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/item/how-to-use-google-docs-to-help-power-your-reporting)

# Examples

- thereported.ca https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r-e6lWoVLSagRk7zfp_TNkgVrhRTtVe2QoYUwOrAeKI/edit#gid=1667426450
- The death of a prosecutor, 40,000 audio hearings, 2 years and a team. http://blogs.lanacion.com.ar/projects/data/the-death-of-a-prosecutor-40000-audio-hearings-2-years-and-a-team/
- The Body Camera Database https://github.com/bodycams/bodycams.github.io/blob/master/README.md
- WaPo's Harwell and Fahrenthold asking for tips on Mar-A-Lago events to track: https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/862406287711141888
- https://www.propublica.org/article/introducing-our-state-by-state-guide-to-dangerous-nurses
- http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/investigative-outlet-correctiv-crowdsourced-data-collection-with-the-help-of-a-local-newsroom/

# Resources

- [Source Open News](https://source.opennews.org/)
- [Github's collection of Open Journalism repos](https://github.com/showcases/open-journalism) (last updated Sept. 2016, only contains 16 repos)
- [The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism](https://www.gitbook.com/book/towcenter/the-art-and-science-of-data-driven-journalism/details)

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