@cephillips

Data/watchdog journalism @Stanford, Founder @biglocalnews. No longer posting here. Find me at https://xitter.cf/t.co/BO0UmuNu5G

 Palo Alto, CA
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Joined October 2008
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It's the time of the year! See the very best in #datajournalism from around the world.
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Sigma Awards Winners Announced The Sigma Awards — a competition celebrating the world’s best data journalism now hosted by GIJN — has announced its 2025 winners. twp.ai/4imr1Y
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A new local journalism collaboration tells a story of a generation of Black men lost to overdoses

The New York Times, The Baltimore Banner and seven other local news organizations, in partnership with Big Local News, published today about a pervasive and long-running crisis in fatal drug overdo...

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Don’t miss this @JSKstanford info session today! jsk.stanford.edu/become-a-fe…
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🗳️ With elections underway, you may be exploring individual campaign contributions using FEC data. Use our story recipe to learn how to work with the most up-to-date data: biglocalnews.org/content/new…

How to explore individual campaign contributions using the FEC data

The elections are here and you may be working on a report on individual contributions using FEC data, but you might have noticed that the processed FEC data does not include the last few months of...

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JOURNALISTS! Are you covering the election today? Do you need quick sources who are happy to talk on the record? Join @VotebeatUS's and @knightfdn's expert desk. Sign up here, we'll process reporters in throughout the day: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Votebeat Election Desk / Knight Election Urgent Care Slack Sign-Up

Journalists interested in being added to the Slack community for the Votebeat Experts Desk and Knight Election Urgent Care projects should sign up here, subject to approval. Unless extended, the...

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Check out our conversation with developer Ryan Murphy for a behind the scenes look at the "why" and "how" of building his wildly popular ActBlue Ticker Tracker on Observable: buff.ly/404UjXi
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Our team has created a Google Doc we'll be updating all week with suggested language for explaining both elections AND news coverage of elections. Keep it handy, and steal any helpful language. lnkd.in/gisvNQBJ
Screengrab of google doc: Use this language to explain elections and election coverage

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Journalists, bookmark this Google Doc that addresses common questions and complaints around elections and election news. 👇
Trusting News@TrustingNews4 Nov 2024
Our team has created a Google Doc we'll be updating all week with suggested language for explaining both elections AND news coverage of elections. Keep it handy, and steal any helpful language. lnkd.in/gisvNQBJ
Screengrab of google doc: Use this language to explain elections and election coverage

ALT Screengrab of google doc: Use this language to explain elections and election coverage

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Ready to invest in yourself and the future of journalism? Register to join us live for our first webinar Monday, Nov. 4 at 9 a.m. PT to get your questions answered about the @JSKstanford fellowships. Applications for the 2024-25 fellowship are now open. stanford.zoom.us/webinar/reg…
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It's been a long hiatus, but I'm excited to share my first piece as a Stanford journalism master's student about the efficacy and views around a proposed rent control policy in California: peninsulapress.com/2024/10/2…
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Join us tomorrow! Don’t miss your opportunity to change your career and life! @JSKstanford application is now open.
John S. Knight Fellowships@JSKstanford3 Nov 2024
💬 Interested in becoming a JSK Fellow? Join our upcoming webinar on Monday, Nov 4, for a deep dive into the program. Meet our directors and learn how this fellowship can take your career to the next level. https://bit.ly-nov04
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New from me at the @BBC: In the lead up to the election, Google is showing people radically different search results based on tiny differences in their queries – even when you ask the exact same question two different ways 👇🧵bbc.com/future/article/20241…

The 'bias machine': How Google tells you what you want to hear

"We're at the mercy of Google." Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world – even when they're asking the exact same question.

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💬 Interested in becoming a JSK Fellow? Join our upcoming webinar on Monday, Nov 4, for a deep dive into the program. Meet our directors and learn how this fellowship can take your career to the next level. https://bit.ly-nov04
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JSK and Stanford’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies launch partnership buff.ly/3TSFx1K
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Y'ALL. The @VotebeatUS experts desk is up and running through Dec. 11. Are you a journalist? Do you want to ask on the record questions of more than 75 *extremely qualified* experts on voting and election admin? Sign up — >300 journalists already have! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Votebeat Election Desk / Knight Election Urgent Care Slack Sign-Up

Journalists interested in being added to the Slack community for the Votebeat Experts Desk and Knight Election Urgent Care projects should sign up here, subject to approval. Unless extended, the...

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🚨 New elections expert help desk for newsrooms 🚨 Apply to join the Election Urgent Care Slack channel to access rapid resource matching for election-related support like: ✅ Safety & legal assistance ✅ Data analysis, data gathering & more Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02WCy_C0

Announcing Election Urgent Care: Connecting U.S. journalists to tools and resources in the post-e...

Newsrooms can now sign up for free resources to enhance their coverage of the post-election period in the U.S. through Election Urgent Care from a coalition of organizations led by the Knight...

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Need to analyze campaign finance data? Check out the new tool from Big Local News, DataTalk. #ddj #journalism buff.ly/3U4VfH8
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It’s incredibly easy for property owners to shield their identities. All you need is to set up a limited liability company, or LLC. It’s perfectly legal and extremely common. outliermedia.org/detroit-spe…

How Detroit speculators hide their identities

Detroit speculators can hide their identities and avoid scrutiny by using limited liability companies.

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Halloween is almost here. Let’s rewind and look at the history of Devil’s Night in Detroit, and the city’s response to the phenomenon. outliermedia.org/devils-nigh…

Devil’s Night in Detroit: A history

Devil’s Night arsons and destructive pranks in Detroit on the eve of Halloween have declined since the 1980s and ’90s. Let’s look at the history.

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Please retweet: I am recruiting PhD students at Berkeley! Please apply to @Berkeley_EECS or @UCJointCPH if you are interested in ML applied to health, inequality, or social science, and mention my name in your app. More details on work/how to apply: cs.cornell.edu/~emmapierson/
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