We're highlighting examples from our Facebook political ad collection that are interesting because of how they're targeted, what they say or how they can help explain how Facebook's advertising system works — and how it can be gamed. | Read more|
The following text is a translation from the Spanish version of a lecture James Breiner gave at the University of La Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia, on August 22. | Read more|
A new spending bill contains a fix for an error-prone disclosure system. But will Congress act? | Read more|
Experts say the term 'hate group' is increasingly difficult to define, as extremist groups grow in number, diversify in ideology and use codewords to spread their messages | Read more|
Government wants to cut Lifeline program citing waste, fraud and abuse | Read more|
When it comes to document management one of my favorite tools is DocumentCloud. | Read more|
As the wife of a Muslim religious leader, she came to America with uncertainty and hope. A suspected hate crime snuffed out the hope. | Read more|
Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has written to the government recommending Justice Ranjan Gogoi as his successor. | Read more|
For five years, about 100 people processed 10,236 datasets from 592 sources and documented 353,531 facts for the Memory and Conflict Observatory, a project that seeks to document the violent events that occurred during the Colombian war. The results can be summarized into a shocking number: 262,197 fatalities over 60 y | Read more|
The circumstances surrounding all the purported assassination plots against Narendra Modi are intriguing—for the backgrounds of the individuals allegedly plotting the murder, for the political climate in which they were revealed, and for the media organisations that break the news. | Read more|
On 28 August, the Pune Police raided the homes of nine prominent human-rights activists and intellectuals across the country. | Read more|
Some people say journalists are “godless.” But I spent five years in full-time Christian ministry, and my faith has made me a better reporter. | Read more|
Two of the nation’s largest private prison companies expect to cash in on additional federal contracts, according to August earnings calls. | Read more|
Tarun Sagar was born as Pawan Kumar Jain on 1967 in Damoh, Madhya Prdaesh. | Read more|
On the evening of 25 August, the day after he returned from flood-rescue operations, Chinthu Pradeep was attacked with swords by activists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. | Read more|
They want Congress to suspend a move that would limit access to information about facilities and could hinder the panel’s ability to oversee worker health and safety. | Read more|
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|
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|
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|
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|
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
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|
Editor of Cobrapost, Aniruddha Bahal, spoke at the UNESCO Head Quarters on August 29 | Read more|
Activists' arrest over alleged caste incitement also draws condemnation from rights groups and opposition parties. | Read more|
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|
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|
Compared to other countries, American officials often receive more generous reimbursements for food and lodging | Read more|
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|
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|
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: 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|
Washington and Moscow trade chemical attack warnings as Russian naval buildup grows ahead of strike on Syria's Idlib. | Read more|
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|
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|
Union representing agency employees warns of ‘potential exposure’ | Read more|