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The @washingtonpost.com still sharing our data and how we did the work while other newsrooms pull back. Check out the gathered data on Github #opendata #reproducibility #transparency bsky.app/profile/cait...

Caitlin Gilbert@caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 11mo ago

You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...

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Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 12mo ago

This is amazing. If you haven't reveled in the glory that is the IPUMS international census archive, you should! Here's something I made from it: "The Rise of One-Person Households" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to chatting about how data journalism actually happens! Join us on Thursday if you can. 📊

Ben Welsh@palewi.re · 12mo ago

🗣️ Hey, nerd world. Join me this Thursday, Dec. 4, when I'll be chatting with Observable, Jared Whalen and Jacque Schrag about how to turn raw data into impactful stories and engaging apps. https://streamyard.com/watch/6KMCfPXDZxAz

Today I want to share with you a statement by former federal judge Mark L. Wolf explaining why he resigned from the federal bench in early November. I found it sobering and troubling. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winner-of-this-weeks-joseph-welch

Trump’s job approval rating has fallen five percentage points to 36%, the lowest of his second term, while disapproval has risen to 60%, per @gallup.com news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low

President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.

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“There are a lot of reasons I run,” @nxthompson.bsky.social writes. “I like to remember that I’m still alive, and that I survived my cancer. But really I run because of my father.” Running “reminds me of my father, and gives me a way to avoid becoming my father.”

Why I Run

I took up the sport to be like my father. I kept going because he stopped.

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Worth paying attention to: community-driven media that breaks the traditional models for journalism and is really impactful in the process.

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I’m not as involved with @triangleblogblog.bsky.social as I used to be - but I think it’s one of the best examples of creating and spreading civic joy. A really fun model that can be replicated.

The people who build strategy from real, surprising insights gained from talking to real, human people will beat the people who build strategy from synthetic data. You can’t learn a defining insight from a probabilistic prediction.

💰Ready to launch an impactful and financially sustainable newsroom?  Join the free online course “Launching Nonprofit Newsrooms: Practical Strategies for Funding and Growth.” Learn strategies to build revenue and grow a sustainable newsroom. 🖱️https://f.mtr.cool/owqgwgyvko #Journalism #News

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Are you interested in local journalism research? Next Friday we are having a free online webinar bringing together a premium selection of UK-based industry leaders, policymakers, journalists, and academics to explore how research can shape the future of local media. Check the link for more!

Former cop Jeffrey Kriv has pleaded guilty to lying under oath and forging reports to get out of speeding/other tickets. And with his credibility at issue, prosecutors now have dropped 92 cases where he had been an arresting officer, @propublica.org found. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison

Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...

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Chicago prosecutors have dropped nearly 100 pending cases against people accused of drunk and dangerous driving and other traffic offenses. Why? The ex-Chicago cop involved in their arrests lied and forged records to dodge his own traffic offenses. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison

Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...

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Switzerland just voted to create a new electronic ID card (the Swiss introduced physical ones in 1955). It's stored locally on your device, you personally approve requests for your data, and is designed to prevent profiling. Contrast to, for example, Britain's centralized proposal.

For smaller newsrooms, it's not enough to just hand over some data- there needs to be a capacity to make effective use of it for impactful stories, says @cephillips.bsky.social #datajconf

Removing friction points is part of the process of enabling data journalism - eg. by offering reporting recipes or regular 'office hours' for tech support, says @cephillips.bsky.social #datajconf

Glad to see this work by Sammy Sussman in The NYT and very glad @shcohen.bsky.social and @biglocalnews.bsky.social could contribute! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

In New York, Some Police Officers Can Drink, Drive and Avoid Charges

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We're back after a lovely lunch, and our second keynote is underway! Marc Lavallee, on Finding your AI Frontier #datajconf

Getting gas late tonight and I am reminded of the time I wrote a story at The Detroit News in the 1990s that talked about how soon, remote pay gas stations would be commonplace. 🙂

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

“Inside California’s new police records database” - Spend a few minutes watching an interview with Cheryl Phillips (@cephillips.bsky.social) on KTVU Fox 2 (@ktvufox2.bsky.social) to hear more about the new database. www.ktvu.com/video/1686149 #AI #UCBerkeley #Stanford #localnews

Inside California’s new police records database

Cheryl Phillips, founder and co-Director of Big Local News at Stanford University, gives insight on new database giving Californians access to nearly one-point-five million pages of internal police re...

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#ddj #datajournalism Hiring two data journalists umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

scoop: @charterworks, the media startup co-founded by WSJ alum @delaney, has sold to @sfstandard. Behind the deal is Michael Moritz, the SF billionaire who placed early bets on Google and PayPal and is now investing in news. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/b...

He Made Billions on Google and PayPal. Now, He’s Betting on News.

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Hello #IRE25! I'll be presenting tomorrow on a panel about localizing data for investigative reporting. @cephillips.bsky.social, Samantha Sunne and Nicole Lewis are all on the panel as well! Not to be missed. schedules.ire.org/ire-2025/ind...

“… it seemed that the news industry was in fact sitting on a treasure trove that the tech companies would need to pay for to keep scaling up their models: fresh, human-authored data.” @nickdiakopoulos.bsky.social’s primer on model collapse:

Rethinking Model Collapse and What that Means for the Value of News Data

What is model collapse and what does it mean for news organization strategy?

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And yes, this is effectively me trying to get the world to care about prompt injection by trying out a new term for a subset of the problem! I hope this captures the risk to end users in a more visceral way - particularly important now that people are mixing and matching MCP servers themselves

If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta Combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate and an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...

The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …

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A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

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