JavaScript Journalism

Open-source JavaScript projects categorized as Journalism

Top 7 JavaScript Journalism Projects

  1. Ghost

    Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

    Project mention: Good Careers at Bad Companies | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-05

    OP/author here! Apologies about the malware and captcha. It looks like my site was exploited by CVE-2026-26980 affecting all Ghost sites pre v6.19 [1][2] An API key was hijacked to inject malicious JS into every page that looks like a cloudflare captcha; it seems that the JS only targeted windows users, so I didn't catch it before I shared the post widely.

    The site has been upgraded to 6.44 to close the vulnerability, I rotated every API key and account credential, and both manually and programmatically scrubbed every instance I could find of the code injection across the database. I think we're clear now!

    Sorry to anyone caught by this and thank you to folks for flagging it (and thanks to the HN team for letting me follow up on this after comments were closed). I'm seriously mortified. X_X

    [1] https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-w...

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. aleph

    Search and browse documents and data; find the people and companies you look for. (by alephdata)

  4. Ghost-CLI

    CLI Tool for installing & updating Ghost

  5. ghost-on-heroku

    One-button Heroku deploy for the Ghost 3.2.0 blogging platform. (by SNathJr)

  6. news-homepages

    An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages

  7. data-visualizations

    This repository contains and hosts interactive visuals used in The Chicago Maroon publication.

  8. d3-scroller

    A simple D3.js scroller.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Good Careers at Bad Companies

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jun 2026
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  • Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2026
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    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2025
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Journalism projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Ghost 53,910
2 aleph 2,379
3 Ghost-CLI 493
4 ghost-on-heroku 229
5 news-homepages 158
6 data-visualizations 22
7 d3-scroller 2

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