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Journalist/Educator, Knight Chair@MediaAtIllinois, Co-founder @gijn and @inn, co-author Investigative Reporter's Handbook; author, Data for Journalists
University of Illinois
Joined April 2008
See you on Bluesky LinkedIn Facebook for awhile Etc As of November 30
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@dlboardman Not sure why we bother to recognize him without immediate satire and humor. Pentagon's reax to his weird-crazy in January seemed appropriate.
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Tomorrow is the second round of layoffs from the Center for Public Integrity that leaves it with very little editorial and administrative staff. Hoping tboard can find a way forward to preserve this center that inspired the creation of so many others
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RT @Publici_Union: Today, @publicintegrity management informed us that they will lay off 11 of our beloved coworkers. This figure represent…
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RT @InasmuchFdn: Inasmuch Foundation is proud to announce $6.3 million in grant funding this spring. Our awards are distributed amongst 62…
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RT @rose_ciotta: Congrats to all INN winners, especially Chuck Lewis for lifetime award. Proud to join colleagues at EdSource on two honora…
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RT @jhett93: EXCLUSIVE: A Congressional report published today found Seresto pet collars pose “too great a risk to animals and humans” and…
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As the end of the year requests for donations pour in, I hope you will consider this one. The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting does crucial in-depth coverage of agribusiness. Donations by Dec. 31 matched $ for $ & are for a reporter's salary
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Did an update on the history of data journalism. Impossible to include all that has happened and everyone involved in the last 50 years or so (that is a book) but mentioned as much as I could.
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RT @wesleysmorgan: Look at the @511Tactical ballcap on one of the Taliban fighters behind Khalil Haqqani in Kabul here, mimicking the aesth…
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Jim Polk, a long-time IRE leader and member, died on July 15th in his home in Atlanta. Polk, 83, had a distinguished career as an investigative journalist in both print and broadcast, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his coverage of Watergate. .
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New independent watchdog nonprofit newsroom, Flat Water Press, in Nebraska ...more here
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