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Big Impact: A Pocket-Guide to the Financial Benefits of Major Investigations
Thu Sep 13 2018
Investigative reporting is an adventure in delayed gratification...
Kanhaiya Kumar Says Narendra Modi Can’t 'Divert' People From High Petrol Prices, Unemployment And Corruption Anymore
Wed Sep 12 2018
In an interview, Kanhaiya Kumar explains why he thinks Narendra Modi's 'Divert And Rule' politics is over....
Collaborations Help Strengthen Journalism in Venezuela
Wed Sep 12 2018
Amid protests, human rights violations, social instability and an unprecedented food crisis, collaborative journalism is getting stronger in Venezuela. ...
UIDAI’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm
Tue Sep 11 2018
Skilled hackers disabled security features of Aadhaar enrolment software, circulated hack on Whatsapp...
Churu Drug Trials: Four Months On, Dalit Victims Report Severe Damage To Health And Caste-Based Harassment
Tue Sep 11 2018
It was mid April, the onset of the heat wave in Rajasthan. ...
Authorities Can Now Deny Visa and Green Card Applications Without Giving Applicants a Chance to Fix Errors
Tue Sep 11 2018
Immigration lawyers call the policy change, which kicks in today, another brick in Trump’s “invisible wall” to make legal immigration as difficult as possible....
What Happens When the Next Financial Crisis Strikes?
Tue Sep 11 2018
As the 10-year anniversary of the last crash nears, pundits are predicting the next one. That’ll bring another problem: Who’s going to solve the crisis when our president has poiso...
How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities
Tue Sep 11 2018
As a ProPublica/Frontline documentary shows, the economic and social gaps among cities are growing as dramatic as the gaps between urban and rural areas....
GIJN’s Fundraising Primer for Nonprofit Media Groups
Tue Sep 11 2018
One of the leading requests GIJN receives is for help with fundraising....
“The Beauty Of The Constitution Is That It Compels Us To Unlearn Our Prejudices”: Menaka Guruswamy Discusses The Section 377 Judgment
Mon Sep 10 2018
On 6 September, in a landmark unanimous verdict, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court partially struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to decriminalise sexual relation...
Here’s What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents and Sent to Chicago
Mon Sep 10 2018
Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance crackdown....
Pune Police Is Diverting The Bhima Koregaon Investigation, Protecting Bhide, Ekbote: Deputy Mayor Siddharth Dhende
Sun Sep 09 2018
The Caravan publishes report of police-appointed committee, headed by Dhende, that finds Hindutva outfits “pre-planned” the Bhima Koregaon violence...
The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to help inject more artificial intelligence into its weaponry
Sat Sep 08 2018
Officials say they want computers to be capable of explaining their decisions to military commanders ...
Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals
Sat Sep 08 2018
A senior official at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has received millions of dollars in payments from companies that are involved in medical research. His omissions expose ...
What The Protesters At The Kisan-Mazdoor Sangharsh Rally Want To Tell The Modi Government
Fri Sep 07 2018
The farmers' demands include proper implementation of government schemes, including increasing the minimum wages under the MGNREGA, as well as better access to health, education, h...
School Shootings, Trains vs Planes, Ukraine-Russia Trade, UK Airport Crimes
Fri Sep 07 2018
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?...
Shridhar Damle: Modi Gave Idea For RSS Book; Promotions Deliberately Focused On White-Skinned Andersen
Fri Sep 07 2018
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Heart Surgery “Legend” a Factor in Transplant Deaths, a St. Luke’s Colleague Told Inspector
Fri Sep 07 2018
Notes released by a federal agency indicate that one of the hospital’s top heart transplant doctors spoke about “a retiring surgeon” who “wouldn’t stop performing transplants” in e...
There Was a Plan to Save This City From Flooding. But When the Rains Came, So Did Hesitance.
Thu Sep 06 2018
The Army Corps of Engineers’ delay in activating a floodway — land designated to take on water — cost millions of dollars in damage to Cairo, Illinois, and surrounding communities ...
As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide
Thu Sep 06 2018
ZERO TOLERANCE As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest s...