How La Nación’s Data Team Produces Award-Winning Stories
Data journalism has experienced a boom in Latin America, and several countries have been recognized for the quality of their work, despite difficulties accessing government data. | Read more|
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Why Did Facebook Stop The Promotion Of The Caravan’s Story On Amit Shah And Jay Shah?
On 10 August, The Caravan published an article detailing how the BJP’s national president Amit Shah mortgaged two of his properties to enable his son Jay Shah’s firm Kusum Finserve LLP to obtain credit facilities from a cooperative bank. | Read more|
Senators Seek Answers From HUD About Public Housing Crisis in East St. Louis
Last year, HUD Secretary Ben Carson gave control of the city’s public housing complexes back to local officials after a lengthy federal receivership. He said problems had been fixed, but an investigation by The Southern Illinoisan and ProPublica found deteriorating conditions. | Read more|
Marines Move to Tackle Racial Extremists in the Corps
An updated order emphasizes that participating in white supremacist groups is prohibited and calls on service members to report those who violate the policy. | Read more|
Muslims to Mecca, Women (Not) in Netflix, Inside Airbnb Europe, London’s Foul Air
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
Social media: Where voices of hate find a place to preach
This report is part of the “Hate in America" project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Ari | Read more|
Aniruddha Bahal, Editor Cobrapost, talks about The perils of investigative journalism at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Editor of Cobrapost, Aniruddha Bahal, spoke at the UNESCO Head Quarters on August 29 | Read more|
India's Supreme Court criticises police for arresting activists
Activists' arrest over alleged caste incitement also draws condemnation from rights groups and opposition parties. | Read more|
White, male and millennial: Hate groups tap bro culture to recruit members
This report is part of the “Hate in America" project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Ari | Read more|
Why I Think Slovak Journalist Jan Kuciak’s Murder Will Never Be Investigated
The Slovak authorities are not doing enough to investigate the murder of my friend and colleague. If journalists have to do the police’s job to discover the truth, then we will. | Read more|
Is the U.S. government wasting millions on trips abroad?
Compared to other countries, American officials often receive more generous reimbursements for food and lodging | Read more|
Nuclear Safety Board Slams Energy Department Plan to Weaken Oversight
The Trump administration defended an order that could be used to withhold information about nuclear facilities from a federal board, but its leader says the action is not consistent with the U.S. Atomic Energy Act. | Read more|
JNU Is Being Destroyed So The Jio Model Can Succeed
In the past two years of the JNU vice chancellor's tenure, the university’s students witnessed crackdowns on nearly every expression of free thought and critical thinking. | Read more|
When The Solution Became The Problem: The Controversy Over Failing VVPATs
Since their first use in 2013, for the Noksen assembly seat in Nagaland, the VVPAT slips have been tallied over 500 times. In each case, the EVM votes have matched the VVPAT slips. | Read more|
Elgaar Parishad probe: 3 arrested activists to be produced in Pune court today
Elgaar Parishad probe: Pune police sources have claimed that Tuesday's arrests followed a probe into at least 200 communications between the five people arrested in June. | Read more|
US, Russia engage in war of words as Syria attack looms
Washington and Moscow trade chemical attack warnings as Russian naval buildup grows ahead of strike on Syria's Idlib. | Read more|
Embattled Garbage Hauler Co-Owns Dump With Person Expelled From Trash Industry, Records Show
A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential impropriety involving Sanitation Salvage. | Read more|
10 Investigative Tools You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Investigations, the saying goes, are just regular stories with a lot more labor put in. Investigative reporters spend inordinate amounts of time sifting through documents, verifying sources and analyzing data — and that’s if they can even get the data. As an investigative reporter with way too many stories I want t | Read more|
Asbestos concerns arise at the Federal Election Commission
Union representing agency employees warns of ‘potential exposure’ | Read more|
US vows to fight Iran lawsuit in international court
Tehran accuses Washington of 'naked economic aggression' and urges UN's top court in The Hague to nullify US sanctions. | Read more|
How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses
The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. | Read more|
Bias-response teams criticized for sanitizing campuses of dissent
Conservatives and alt-right followers claim colleges are sanitizing campuses of dissent, in violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech. | Read more|
How Local News Outlets Can Build an Online Audience
We lead a research project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School called the Single Subject News Project, funded by the Knight Foundation. | Read more|
Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections
The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions. | Read more|
Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It
It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals. | Read more|
Document of the Day: YouTube Video SEO Tips
If your investigative documentary or journalism video is hosted on YouTube, you might want to check out this useful graphic on YouTube SEO statistics created by tech enthusiast Saksham Kumar. His analysis of YouTube’s ranking factors could help you optimize your videos to increase views and subscribers and get your i | Read more|
Lack of trust in law enforcement hinders reporting of LBGTQ crimes
Violent crimes and other hate incidents targeting LGBTQ Americans consistently are unreported and often not prosecuted | Read more|
In Ernakulam, A Navy-Run Community Kitchen Works Day And Night To Serve Relief Camps
Since 18 August, a team from INS Venduruthy, a naval base located on Willingdon Island in Kochi, has been working round-the-clock at this makeshift community kitchen to prepare food for survivors of the floods. | Read more|
Louisiana Senate President Sank Ride-Sharing Bill. His Close Pal Sells Insurance to Cabs.
Widely supported legislation would have allowed Uber and Lyft to operate throughout Louisiana. But John Alario took steps to kill it, and colleagues point to his long-standing ties to a power broker who sells insurance to cab companies. | Read more|
Egyptian Bots, Pocket Inequality, Loner Jobs and Knife Emergencies
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
‘Dark money’ boosts Democratic super PAC that’s battling ‘corrupt campaign finance system’
Most of BlackPAC’s July income came from a limited liability company | Read more|
Winsome diverted $750 million to promoter’s firms abroad: Probe
Winsome Diamonds, which was declared as a “wilful defaulter” in 2016, has claimed that it did not divert funds and was a victim of non-payment by Obaidah’s firms. | Read more|
Saudi Arabia 'seeks death penalty' for female activist
Israa al-Ghomgham documented demonstrations in the kingdom's Eastern Province from 2011, before being arrested in 2015. | Read more|
Kerala flood survivors face 'great struggle' to rebuild lives
More than one million people remain sheltered in temporary relief camps, officials say, as flood waters begin to recede. | Read more|
Tax Case Flips the Script for Democrats and the GOP. But What About for Jurists?
A lawsuit attacking last year’s tax cut will test whether judicial conservatives align with Republicans, who find themselves defending Congress’ power, or with the states’ rights doctrine at the heart of their legal thinking. | Read more|