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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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Similarly, a Washington Post story said the office juggled its staff to ensure there were enough people during the storm. “I’m glad to say we were very well staffed for the entirety of the event,” Cassell said. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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Saw this quote in a USA Today story: “The deaths were not attributable to the staffing cuts,” he said. “Everybody was there last night. We had a full team.” Check out this article from USA TODAY:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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The film includes video from a Donald Trump rep (Roger Stone) from 1999, when Trump formed an exploratory committee for a potential presidential run. “He’s not for the WTO. He’s not for NAFTA and he’s not for GATT.”
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Here is a view from the theater before the film begins.
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“Despite last week’s good news, Mississippi Today may not be out of the woods yet. Ashton Pittman reports in the Mississippi Free Press, another nonprofit news organization, that Bryant’s lawyer plans to appeal and that he expects the case will eventually end up before the state supreme court.”
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From Deep Throat to Reality Winner.
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Massachusetts is currently the only state where all three claim to be completely exempt. Mass. and Michigan are the only states where the governor's office claims to be completely exempt. Michigan recently took steps toward changing that. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...
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If you do a Google search, you will see a number of stories over the years about similar errors. www.npr.org/sections/hea...
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“In calendar year 2019, SSA removed 6,873 death entries from the Death Master File.”
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Story doesn’t say whether DOGE was involved. This kind of error has happened before. www.wmar2news.com/matterformal...
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Holmes may also be best known for his ruling on the limits of free speech (“falsely shouting fire in a theater”). He used that phrase in a unanimous Supreme Court decision affirming the government’s right to jail people who distributed flyers urging Americans to disobey the draft in 1917.
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I think the real Mary Tyler Moore was in the middle of the street when she filmed the sequence - not the ideal location for a statue or people to take selfies.
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No, it is near where the credits for the original series were filmed.
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Tip sheets, slides and sample data files are here: bit.ly/nicar25-nonp...
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Anyone recording the lightning talks at #nicar25?
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These numbers exclude justifiable homicides. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/c...
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Boston’s numbers are similar to El Paso’s. El Paso had 20 murders in 2024, down from 33 in 2023.
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The session is slated for 9 am Thursday, one of the first sessions of the conference.
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Hmm. Wonder why.
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Note: This particular photo was taken at a Trader Joe’s near Boston on Sunday.
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This might be an example: www.latimes.com/la-me-quakeb...
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I would not assume that. This may be a case where AI is generating story drafts based on box scores, meeting minutes or other raw material and they want a human being to polish, verify or expand the copy.