One piece of the great The New York Times entry that won the Pulitzer for Public Service today was this excellent story by Raymond Zhong Paul Mozur 孟建國 Aaron Krolik and Jeff Kao of ProPublica. Awesome.

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I just love love love that Aaron Krolik 'is an unqualified loser' is on the front page of today's The New York Times. 😂 nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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A single full NYC subway train can hold +/- 2000 people

Consumer groups say Google misleads parents by marketing inappropriate kids' apps as child-friendly. Google said it had removed thousands of kids' apps from the Play store after finding policy violations.
My story with Jennifer Valentino-DeVries + Aaron Krolik
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Frida was instrumental in this reporting. Thank you!

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Natasha Singer Michael Keller Aaron Krolik Adam Satariano Not Good. Sincerely Shellie Gary

🎵 They see where you were sleeping. They know if you’re awake. Your apps, they could be bad or good, but pass a privacy law for goodness sake. 🎵

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this project is an example of collaborative investigating including traditional shoe-leather (including sourcing an enormous dataset) and new-school computer-assisted reporting (finding stories in the noise). helluva team. grateful to the The New York Times for giving us the time n space.

They know where you’ve been sleeping. They know where you’re awake... The intrusive industry of selling your location data harvested by your cell phone apps. Fascinating and eerie piece by ⁦a a great NYT team. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The tech industry argues that regulation chills innovation.
But this story on smartphone location tracking by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Michael Keller Adam Satariano Aaron Krolik Rich Harris and me shows how surveillance can chill human behavior
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Natasha Singer Michael Keller Aaron Krolik Here's 24 hours of that data in timelapse form (rendered with WebGL, in case you wondered). Imagine the power you'd have to understand — and thereby, influence — people's behaviour if you had access to it.

Many have reached out about The New York Times fellowship applications. I can't respond to all. Know that the program is very competitive.

We received:

1,400 apps for 12 reporting spots.
800 for 2 photo.
800 for 2 op-ed.
750 for 1 magazine.
500 for 1 podcast.

(among other spots)

Other factor: the technicity and opacity of ad bidding systems is used to justify greater transparency requirements. People cannot expect to consent to what they don't understand (or even know exist), therefore the adtech ecosystem is de facto under *stronger* requirements.

Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and Leonard Bernstein, photographed by...Stanley Kubrick

Well, judging by the lines this morning on New York’s Upper West Side, Democrats are about to sweep the House, the Senate, the School Board, the Emmys, the Oscars, the 400m freestyle, the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and the 1978 World Series. #anecdata 🌊

“I don’t want this to come off like we’re shaming our friends into voting.” Well, yes -- among other things. A neat piece by Natasha Singer + @aaron_krolik nyti.ms/2D0Xq81

'Happy Friday!' says Megyn Kelly, at the top of today's -- uh, previously recorded -- episode of Megyn Kelly Today.