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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Journalism

Bookmarks

  1. Protos: Informed Crypto News

    Protos is an independent crypto news publication positioning itself as more rigorous and skeptical than mainstream crypto media — 'informed crypto news.' Saved during the 2022 peak, when low-quality crypto coverage was ubiquitous and critical voices were rare.

  2. Introducing Tabula

    Tabula is an open-source tool for extracting tabular data from PDFs — a specific but critical pain point for data journalists and researchers working with government and scientific publications that publish data as PDFs instead of structured files.

  3. EveryBlock Source Code — Google Code

    EveryBlock's source code released publicly after MSNBC shut down the service — a civic data aggregation platform that combined neighborhood-level crime, restaurant inspections, permits, and news. Adrian Holovaty's landmark local journalism experiment.

  4. Pitch Interactive

    Pitch Interactive is a data visualization studio based in Oakland — known for their work on drone strike data, network visualizations, and public-interest data journalism. One of the few studios doing both rigorous data work and high-quality visual design.

  5. Timeline JS — Beautifully Crafted Timelines

    Timeline JS by Veríte — an open-source tool for building interactive timelines from a Google Spreadsheet. Widely adopted by journalists and educators in 2012-2014 for its zero-code approach to narrative data visualization.

  6. Who Needs Photographers When You Have Robots?

    NPR's 2012 piece on robotic camera systems deployed at the London Olympics, capable of shots no human photographer could position for. An early concrete case of automation entering creative/journalistic work at a professional level.

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