The statistic seemed to crop up everywhere. Versions were cited at UN negotiations, on protest banners, in 186 peer-reviewed scientific papers – even by the film-maker James Cameron , while promoting …
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In the heat of the 2024 election cycle, opportunities for political fact-checking are everywhere — in candidate debates, campaign ads, mailers sent to prospective voters and more. At the Reporters’ …
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Dartmouth researchers use ICIJ database to show how the ultrawealthy exploit the offshore world
A recent study based on data from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Offshore Leaks Database found that elites around the world rely on specific secrecy tactics to obscure and …
“Where did you learn to teach?” This is the question that the authors of this post–all recently appointed professors of data journalism–found themselves confronted with after their first semester of …
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Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals
Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal. Those military ties were thrown into …
I n the weeks before a gunman wielding an AR-15 style rifle killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022, he purchased 2,115 rounds of ammunition. Every one of them was made at a …
Data about LGBTQ people has gotten more plentiful as census collections in the U.S. and internationally have added surveys and questions seeking to understand those communities. But between spotty …