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Investigative/data reporter, WBUR public radio in Boston. Teaching data journalism @ NortheasternU. Alum of Boston Globe Spotlight Team & SF Chronicle. Nieman ‘20. Contact me: [email protected]
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The @bostonglobe.com‬ is suing five Massachusetts police departments for withholding records. #FOIA www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/22/m...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Spotted in Somerville this morning. @waymo.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder how many homes are blurred on Google Streetview.

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Classmates of Brent Renaud, the gifted journalist killed in Ukraine, planted this tree in the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social garden. It’s an Arkansas black apple from Brent’s home state & I worried whether the spindly specimen could thrive here. This week it bloomed spectacularly. Of course it did.

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The producers used a lot of archival footage shot on camcorders. Their tip: If you have important video on VHS, digitize it soon.

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Looking forward to talking to producers of WTO/99 documentary tonight at the Independent Film Festival Boston. @wbur.org

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“Trump is expected to propose rescinding $1.1 billion — two years' worth of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that in turn partially funds NPR and PBS.” www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

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TIL Derek runs a niche eval leaderboard testing how good LLMs are at extracting committee names from the disclaimer text in political fundraising emails - more notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/8/p...

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"Newspapers are closing at a rate of more than two every week."

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Congrats to this year’s winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting: Katey Rusch and Casey Smith for @ucberkeley IRP and @sfchronicle.com

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

How to leak to a journalist! featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social

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Huge crowds came out for the cherry blossoms in DC this past weekend.

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Joined WBUR’s Endless Thread to talk about whistleblowers and how to send tips to journalists. open.spotify.com/episode/0rur...

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Happy evacuation day for all who observe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuat...

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78% of Mass lawmakers declined to say whether thether the Legislature, judiciary or governor's office should be covered by the state public records law. #FOIA www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/17/m...

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The top picture was taken during the Christmas travel season in 2009. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto...

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Interesting piece by ProPublica about how its journalists used AI to sift through documents and find interesting examples. www.propublica.org/article/usin...

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When your train to the airport also goes to the Mall of America.

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Thanks @ire-nicar.bsky.social for a great #NICAR25 conference.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Congrats to all the finalists for this year’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. shorensteincenter.org/announcing-f...

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Looking forward to talking about nonprofit data at #nicar25.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Good thread for anyone doing the work, but especially for beginners or first-timers at #NICAR25 to check out

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Looking at nonprofits and ran across this one in Massachusetts:

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Federal law court clerks grapple with bullying and abuse - an NPR investigation www.npr.org/2025/03/01/n...

submitted 94 days ago • 11 comments

Six people who live in Boston’s South End neighborhood filed nearly 25k complaints last year about airport noise. That’s more than 4k complaints per person.

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Just another day at the grocery store. #eggs

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