#234 - DIY approach to data bolsters crime coverage

Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 10:26 p.m.

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to Joshua Vaughn, a criminal justice reporter at the Sentinel newspaper in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Vaughn taught himself coding and built tools that allowed him to scrape data from public records. He shares how this information has both supported the reporting he had been already doing and led to new stories about the criminal justice system.