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Fatal flaws: How Kentucky fails its workers
Tue Nov 13 2018
Lisa Hobbs holds a photo of her and her husband dancing together. Her husband, Gene Hobbs, was run over by...
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ of state worker safety programs
Tue Nov 13 2018
Twenty-eight states and territories regulate their own workplaces rather than defer to the feds. While some of these programs are...
Donors Invest Millions in Investigative Journalism Centers at US Universities
Tue Nov 13 2018
Arizona State University, which boasts the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, is one of two universities to launch investigative reporting...
The Death of Bulgarian Journalist Viktoria Marinova: A Scandal, a Murder and a Mystery
Fri Nov 09 2018
Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova was working on what is known as the GP procurement scandal when she was killed....
How to Identify Bots, Trolls and Botnets
Mon Nov 05 2018
Over the past two years, words like “bots,” “botnets” and “trolls” have entered mainstream conversations about social networks and their...
How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave
Thu Nov 01 2018
The liberal money-gathering platform is remaking fundraising for the left
GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Forecasting Elections, Counting Fast Food, Kampala’s Swamp City, Gasping for Air
Thu Nov 01 2018
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?
Mail-In Ballot Postage Becomes a Surprising (and Unnecessary) Cause of Voter Anxiety
Thu Nov 01 2018
You can send your ballot in without a stamp, so why doesn’t anyone tell you that?
'It's Impossible To Survive': Odisha Temple Priest Writes To SC Seeking To End His Life
Thu Nov 01 2018
This comes after the Supreme Court suggested abolition of hereditary rights of servitors in Puri's Jagannath Temple.
The VA Shadow Rulers’ Signature Program Is “Trending Towards Red”
Thu Nov 01 2018
A $10 billion technology upgrade championed by Jared Kushner and the Mar-a-Lago trio is at risk of failing the VA’s...
Cobrapost Exclusive : TATA CLiQ Uses Bogus Reviews to Bolster Online Sales
Thu Nov 01 2018
An analysis reveals the Tata group company is using fake reviews to lure gullible customers into buying from its online...
Modi Govt Skips Global Air Pollution Meet For Sardar Patel Statue Unveiling As India Chokes
Wed Oct 31 2018
Environment Minister Harsh Vardan, Health Minister JP Nadda and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of the BJP chose to flag off...
Backlash over North Dakota voter ID law could rally Native Americans
Tue Oct 30 2018
Tribes — with celebrity help — are mobilizing members ahead of midterms
How The UIDAI Built The Aadhaar Database, And Created A Security Mess In The Process
Fri Sep 28 2018
Lakhs of untrained, poorly supervised people helped create the world’s largest biometric database. What happened when this access was taken...
Useful Chatbots, Less-Is-More Tables and Data Mapping Billions of Birds
Fri Sep 28 2018
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?
Sabarimala Temple Verdict: Supreme Court Says Women Can Enter Kerala Shrine
Fri Sep 28 2018
Lifting the ban on women's entry, CJI Dipak Misra said patriarchy of religion cannot be permitted to trump over faith...
Why are corporations pouring millions into shoo-in governor races?
Sat Sep 22 2018
Eight governors use war chests to shore up political power ahead of likely wins
Document of the Day: Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018
Sat Sep 22 2018
The number of those who access news via their smartphones has doubled in the past six years.
NCW 'Fired' Two Women In 2016 After They Complained Of Sexual Harassment
Fri Sep 21 2018
The two former employees have filed a case in the Delhi High Court accusing the National Commission for Women of...
Sad Tunes Algorithm, Fragapane’s Beautiful Dataviz, African Pay Gap, Euro-Xenophobia
Fri Sep 21 2018
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?