Mediagazer: Cultural and technical lessons learned while leading the Thunderdome's data team that I never learned at newspapers (Tom Meagher)

10:40 AM ET, June 6, 2014

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Tom Meagher:

Cultural and technical lessons learned while leading the Thunderdome's data team that I never learned at newspapers — Things I never learned at newspapers about making news on the internet — Over 21 months at Thunderdome, we created a lot of great projects, from interactive graphics …

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