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Want People to Read Your Investigation? Make Sure You Tell a Good Story
Great investigative reporting often turns into bad, hard-to-read articles. At best, stories like these are boring; at worst, they are impossible to understand. Sadly, these stories can have little or no impact, meaning months of difficult investigative work is largely wasted. | Read more|
“Pretty Much a Failure”: HUD Inspections Pass Dangerous Apartments Filled With Rats, Roaches and Toxic Mold
The system for inspecting federally subsidized properties is failing low-income families, seniors and people with disabilities and undermining the agency’s oversight, The Southern Illinoisan and ProPublica have found. | Read more|
GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson is winning a medal. But are Republicans losing the political money war?
Conservatives at odds over whether they’re cultivating enough new donors | Read more|
Latin American Investigations Honored in Bogotá
Winners of the Javier Valdez Latin American Award for Investigative Journalism in Bogotá, Colombia. Image: Courtesy of COLPIN. | Read more|
Al Qaeda in Kashmir: The Strange Tale Of The Valley's Loneliest Militant
Is former Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa's Ansar Ghawzat-Ul-Hind a front for India or Pakistan? | Read more|
When It Comes to Rape, Just Because a Case Is Cleared Doesn’t Mean It’s Solved
Some police departments, turning to a designation that’s supposed to be used sparingly, make it seem as though they’ve solved a significant number of rape cases when they have simply closed them. | Read more|
Nearly All the Officers in Charge of an Indiana Police Department Have Been Disciplined — Including the Chief Who Keeps Promoting Them
Of the 34 supervisors in the Elkhart, Indiana, Police Department, 28 have been disciplined. Fifteen have been suspended. Seven have been involved in fatal shootings. Three have been convicted of criminal charges. | Read more|
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|
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|
Donors Invest Millions in Investigative Journalism Centers at US Universities
Arizona State University, which boasts the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, is one of two universities to launch investigative reporting centers based on funding from the Scripps-Howard Foundation. Image: Facebook | Read more|
Mail-In Ballot Postage Becomes a Surprising (and Unnecessary) Cause of Voter Anxiety
You can send your ballot in without a stamp, so why doesn’t anyone tell you that? | Read more|
Modi Govt Skips Global Air Pollution Meet For Sardar Patel Statue Unveiling As India Chokes
Environment Minister Harsh Vardan, Health Minister JP Nadda and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of the BJP chose to flag off "Unity Run" instead. | Read more|
'It's Impossible To Survive': Odisha Temple Priest Writes To SC Seeking To End His Life
This comes after the Supreme Court suggested abolition of hereditary rights of servitors in Puri's Jagannath Temple. | Read more|
The VA Shadow Rulers’ Signature Program Is “Trending Towards Red”
A $10 billion technology upgrade championed by Jared Kushner and the Mar-a-Lago trio is at risk of failing the VA’s 7 million patients. | Read more|
Backlash over North Dakota voter ID law could rally Native Americans
Tribes — with celebrity help — are mobilizing members ahead of midterms | Read more|
Cobrapost Exclusive : TATA CLiQ Uses Bogus Reviews to Bolster Online Sales
An analysis reveals the Tata group company is using fake reviews to lure gullible customers into buying from its online store | Read more|
GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Forecasting Elections, Counting Fast Food, Kampala’s Swamp City, Gasping for Air
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave
The liberal money-gathering platform is remaking fundraising for the left | Read more|
How The UIDAI Built The Aadhaar Database, And Created A Security Mess In The Process
Lakhs of untrained, poorly supervised people helped create the world’s largest biometric database. What happened when this access was taken away from them? | Read more|
Useful Chatbots, Less-Is-More Tables and Data Mapping Billions of Birds
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
Sabarimala Temple Verdict: Supreme Court Says Women Can Enter Kerala Shrine
Lifting the ban on women's entry, CJI Dipak Misra said patriarchy of religion cannot be permitted to trump over faith . | Read more|