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Bias-response teams criticized for sanitizing campuses of dissent
Tue Aug 28 2018
Conservatives and alt-right followers claim colleges are sanitizing campuses of dissent, in violation of the First Amendment’s right to free...
How Local News Outlets Can Build an Online Audience
Tue Aug 28 2018
We lead a research project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School...
Embattled Garbage Hauler Co-Owns Dump With Person Expelled From Trash Industry, Records Show
Tue Aug 28 2018
A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential...
JNU Is Being Destroyed So The Jio Model Can Succeed
Mon Aug 27 2018
In the past two years of the JNU vice chancellor's tenure, the university’s students witnessed crackdowns on nearly every expression...
How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses
Mon Aug 27 2018
The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model...
Document of the Day: YouTube Video SEO Tips
Sat Aug 25 2018
If your investigative documentary or journalism video is hosted on YouTube, you might want to check out this useful graphic...
Lack of trust in law enforcement hinders reporting of LBGTQ crimes
Sat Aug 25 2018
Violent crimes and other hate incidents targeting LGBTQ Americans consistently are unreported and often not prosecuted
Egyptian Bots, Pocket Inequality, Loner Jobs and Knife Emergencies
Fri Aug 24 2018
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?
Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections
Fri Aug 24 2018
The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in...
Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It
Fri Aug 24 2018
It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals.
‘Dark money’ boosts Democratic super PAC that’s battling ‘corrupt campaign finance system’
Fri Aug 24 2018
Most of BlackPAC’s July income came from a limited liability company
Winsome diverted $750 million to promoter’s firms abroad: Probe
Thu Aug 23 2018
Winsome Diamonds, which was declared as a “wilful defaulter” in 2016, has claimed that it did not divert funds and...
In Ernakulam, A Navy-Run Community Kitchen Works Day And Night To Serve Relief Camps
Thu Aug 23 2018
Since 18 August, a team from INS Venduruthy, a naval base located on Willingdon Island in Kochi, has been working...
Saudi Arabia 'seeks death penalty' for female activist
Thu Aug 23 2018
Israa al-Ghomgham documented demonstrations in the kingdom's Eastern Province from 2011, before being arrested in 2015.
Louisiana Senate President Sank Ride-Sharing Bill. His Close Pal Sells Insurance to Cabs.
Thu Aug 23 2018
Widely supported legislation would have allowed Uber and Lyft to operate throughout Louisiana. But John Alario took steps to kill...
Kerala flood survivors face 'great struggle' to rebuild lives
Thu Aug 23 2018
More than one million people remain sheltered in temporary relief camps, officials say, as flood waters begin to recede.
Investigative Journalists Propel #MeToo Reporting at China’s Universities
Thu Aug 23 2018
This is the first in a series on the wave of investigative reporting behind the #MeToo movement in China, written...
“We Left In Three Boats. We Saved Around 500 People”: The Fishermen Rescue Team Of Kerala’s Neendakara Port Return Home
Wed Aug 22 2018
At around 7 pm, 11 fishermen returned after three days of rescue operations. Russo Alexander, one of the fishermen, said,...
One-on-One Mentoring at IJAsia18: Data Journalism and Sustainable Journalism
Wed Aug 22 2018
GIJN is excited to offer one-on-one mentoring on data journalism and sustainable journalism practices at the upcoming Asian Investigative Journalism...
How Trump’s tax cuts favor whites over minorities
Wed Aug 22 2018
Data analysis shows people of color will get much smaller tax breaks over time