Reed F. Richardson

Exactly, I kept scrolling and re-scrolling the PT story wondering where this Israeli tank image was!

This is why we need big newsrooms with lots of reporters who can dig into things. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...

While there's a strong argument that Noem's tenure at DHS deserves far more consequences than just exiling her into a face-saving made-up job, it's also clear that all the accountability / investigative reporting into claims of her mismanagement, corruption, and self-dealing DID have an impact.

Unrelated to the actual text, I question the editorial thinking behind Psychology Today's promotion of this story on raising resilient children, which chose to use as its stock image an Israeli Yom Kippur War memorial in the Golan Heights?

[Layla piano outro plays]

Marathon Man A Michigan dentist’s improbable transformation.

I learned from the site just HOW MANY people do get their obviously sketchy times scrubbed from the official results after big races, but that's about it for consequences.
By the way, the ne plus ultra of this niche genre is this amazing @newyorker.com piece: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no idea Data labelers for the company Appen say they have little insight about how their work is used.

Gig workers in Africa helped train AI systems for a company that performed work for a secretive U.S. military unit. Many were never told their work could be used for military purposes https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

Screenshot of Politico article on how the Trump administration didn't plan for the war on Iran, has made deadly mistakes, is scrambling to staff up properly and has no clear strategic objective or endstate in mind.

Less than one week into Trump's war on Iran, and Politico—hardly an institutional skeptic of US power projection—is reporting on how the US didn't plan properly, made deadly mistakes, is scrambling to staff up, & has no clear strategic objective or endstate in mind.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The real-world accountability stakes are almost zero for stuff like this of course, but still I get strangely satisfied when these people get outed. (I run road races—not marathons—occasionally, so to cheat at these events feels like a real betrayal of the amateur community.)

In light of all the heavy, foreboding news, I've found a trifling diversion—a website that investigates people who cheat at marathons. It's very data-driven (uneven split times are a big 🚩) & certain marathon routes are ripe for abuse (out-and-backs make it all too easy for people to U-turn early).

The public deserves to know when Iran war reporting is stifled An unprecedented censorship infrastructure will obscure the fighting

Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom.

The reporting should include acknowledgment and explanation of how censorship impacts what the public sees and reads.

The 2026 Sigma Awards shortlist is out!

Take a look at all the 31 finalists, who hail from 23 different countries and territories around the world.

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When confronted with a trove of disturbing photos gathered from the former Assad regime in Syria, a reporting team had to figure out a method to analyze the images while limiting exposure to the traumatic materials.
Originally published at the Data and Research Center
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I've learned the most effective #datajournalism is sometimes the simplest, boiling down the big story to just a few (often small) numbers that clearly tell the audience what's going on.

GIJN is excited to announce the 2026 Sigma Awards shortlist
A diverse panel of jurors chose a total of 31 outstanding data journalism projects and portfolios — 26 of the former, five of the latter — as finalists. This group hails from 23 different countries & territories.
https://twp.ai/E6GDpV

Reporting on the ground in Iran is incredibly difficult and sometimes presents deadly risks.
Learn how the BBC Verify team uses open source tools to remotely confirm or debunk social media images, so it can accurately report on protests & other events inside the country.
https://twp.ai/E6G04H

In GIJN's latest Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at stories about the four-year anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine, an investigation into Sudanese child soldiers on TikTok, the lack of water treatment inside India, & an analysis of Jeffrey Epstein's vast email network.
https://twp.ai/E6G3LG

US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

This whole incident seemed off just based off the initial explanations, turns out it WAS an incredibly dangerous example of negligence— the US gov't effectively shot down one of its drones.
apnews.com/article/mili...

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Molly Ivins believed journalism should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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Great #datajournalism story here, but these two quotes pretty succinctly sum up the larger, problematic trend here: ultra-wealthy individuals want to *live in the city* but are willing to pay tens of millions to avoid *city living,* where they have to actually share space with neighbors/the public.

Incredible front-page story from Ukraine by a reporter and photojournalist that the Post just laid off wapo.st/4rKFape

NYTimes gets its hands on Kash Patel's official Italy itinerary & it looks like a classic case of manufacturing a few, pro-forma meetings to justify a gov't-funded boondoggle to watch hockey.
And I lol'd at this, which is as close to NYTimes snark as you'll ever see.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

Investigative collaboration helps distribute risk when exposing wrongdoing carries personal and professional risk, while it also provides more resources to verify complex transnational data & narratives.
Learn more best practices from this #GIJC25 panel of veteran reporters.
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Bill Nack would've written the hell out of the story of Vonn's last run.

Tips for Conducting Investigations About Venezuela GIJN spoke with three leading, award-winning investigative journalists from Venezuela about practical tips for keeping sources secure while reporting from inside and outside the country.

The world’s eyes have been on Venezuela since the US military raids and capture of President Nicolas Maduro. GIJN spoke with three leading, award-winning investigative journalists from there about safety tips & data resources for reporting from inside & outside the country.
gijn.org/stories/tips...

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Screenshot of moment from The Simpsons where Bart is playing newspaper with Todd and Rod and prints up a headline "Todd Smells" and Todd, as a good editor should, is questioning his source.

Just because journalism jokes are a precious commodity in this world…

Bloomberg charts showing the wealth increase in the last three presidential terms, by quintile, which shows Trump's 2nd term being a clear win for the rich, with the top 1% seeing huge gains.

Pretty powerful dataviz chart here on Trump's priorities in his 2nd term. The top 1% enjoying huge wealth gains & the rich are leaving the poor & middle class behind.
(Also, I suspect Trump 1's big boost for the bottom 20% is all tied to bipartisan COVID stipends.)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Investigators from Transparency International explain how they went undercover to expose a sanctioned crypto exchange in Russia that had resurrected itself under a new name and continued to attract new clients and move illicit money across borders

https://twp.ai/NTbU50

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU