Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
Nieman Lab:
Analysis: news organizations’ open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline — The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.