KickTraq

First, thank you all for your support and encouragement. We've hit our initial goal and will start outlining courses in the next few weeks. Sorry for the delayed "whoooo!" update, but it's taken me a week to dig out of work backlog after several... (Read More)

Thank you all for your support and general awesomeness. As of 1:22 a.m. EST, we've reached our initial funding goal! What next? Keep spreading the word for 3 more days, and let's see how far we can get. We have a ton of ideas for making the initial... (Read More)

We have 6 days and a wee bit over $3k to go. Tell your friends. I'll be hustling at SXSW. Let  me know if you want to chat about how FJ can make your newsroom or team more awesome. -Dave  (Read More)

At NICAR? Want to see Ken Schwencke take 3 pies in the face? Find us at 5 p.m. today. We'll either be in the hotel bar or rear lobby.  (Read More)

We're at 77% with 21 days to go. Things are looking great. Thank you all so much for your encouragement, suggestions and support.  We are super grateful to welcome Digital First Media aboard as our second newsroom-level backer, joining NBCNews. I... (Read More)

There is no better place to make huge impact than at the university level. We'd love to see For Journalism provided free to every student within a college, school, department or whole university.  We're going to have special instructor materials... (Read More)

We're halfway there in funding with 32 days to go. The response from everyone has been so amazingly positive so far, I almost can't believe it.  Michelle Minkoff wrote a tremendous blog post today about why she's participating in this project.... (Read More)

A new journalism-related Kickstarter campaign has had some traction this week with a goal of raising $32,000 to create a package of training materials for people interested in learning programming to do journalism. The initial eight courses are expected to cover languages, tools, concepts needed for online storytelling. All together they will create a package of training material – ebook, screencasts, code repositories and forums – that can be used by individuals or within news organizations. (Read More)

Hey all! We're cruising along toward our goal, and we have an amazing announcement for today. First, we've added another course into our initial list. Thank you Chase Davis for coming about to teach "Data Science and Statistics" for journalism. Also,... (Read More)

"Take a data journalism class," advises Dan Oshinsky, newsletter editor at Buzzfeed, in a tweet addressed to students at the Missouri School of Journalism (and followers of his Twitter feed). "Data journalism people get hired. Period." (Read More)