GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Number Jungles, Gender Gaps, Uber Maps, Brexit Woes
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
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Smriti Irani Expertly Trolled Ranveer-Deepika For Making Everyone Wait For Their Wedding Pictures
The Minister channelled her inner millennial and came up with a meme to troll the newly married couple. | Read more|
Brothers Who Were Online Friends With Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Had Ties to Violent Neo-Nazis
The authorities said they arrested a Washington, D.C., man who had hailed the suspect and might have known more about the attack. The man and his brother had talked of wanting to kill Jews and blacks, prosecutors said. | Read more|
On the Frontlines of Russia’s Propaganda War, Here’s How Ukrainian Groups Are Fighting Back
In August, BuzzFeed News broke a major story about the Russian propaganda machine. | Read more|
West Virginia’s Natural Gas Industry Keeps Pushing to Whittle Away Payments to Residents
Companies are deducting “post-production” costs or creating shell companies to reduce royalty payments. The firms say they have done nothing wrong. | Read more|
Drilling overwhelms agency protecting America's lands
The Bureau of Land Management is making it easier to produce oil and gas on federal acreage. In southeastern New Mexico, it can't even keep up with what's already happening. | Read more|
Sabarimala Row: Kerala Govt Convenes All-Party Meeting Tomorrow
The temple had witnessed a string of protests from devotees when it opened for monthly pujas in October and two days early this month. | Read more|
Flipkart's Binny Bansal's Resignation Is Startup India's Moment of Reckoning
Walmart pushed out founder after rumours of sexual harassment, suggesting need to focus on corporate governance | Read more|
New Models: How Academics, Nonprofit News and Government are Collaborating
The Global Reporting Centre has launched an ambitious project investigating labor abuse, environmental impact and corruption in global commerce. | Read more|
Fake News On Twitter Won’t Have A Single Fix, Said CEO Jack Dorsey
'It’s a lot like security, no one can build a perfect lock,' Dorsey said, explaining why fake news is not an easy problem to solve. | Read more|
Stan Lee, Pioneer Of The Marvel Universe, Dead At Age 95
Lee was the co-creator of Marvel Comics characters including Spider-Man, Thor, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther and the Avengers. | Read more|
Fatal flaws: How Kentucky fails its workers
Lisa Hobbs holds a photo of her and her husband dancing together. Her husband, Gene Hobbs, was run over by a coworker on a construction site in December 2016. | Read more|
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ of state worker safety programs
Twenty-eight states and territories regulate their own workplaces rather than defer to the feds. While some of these programs are effective, others are in trouble for not adequately protecting workers. | Read more|
How to Identify Bots, Trolls and Botnets
Over the past two years, words like “bots,” “botnets” and “trolls” have entered mainstream conversations about social networks and their impact on democracies. However, malicious social media accounts are often mislabeled, derailing the conversations about them from substance to definitions. | Read more|
The Death of Bulgarian Journalist Viktoria Marinova: A Scandal, a Murder and a Mystery
Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova was working on what is known as the GP procurement scandal when she was killed. Photo: Facebook | Read more|