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Recruiting season is underway. Friends at #INNDays24, come find me at the The New York Times booth to talk about the Local Investigations Fellowship and other programs/jobs. Good a good local investigative pitch? We're taking applications. nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/job/…





BIG LOCAL NEWS Now is the time to get the data help you need! Join our call. Live, right now!


🧵Back by popular demand! Investigative Reporters & Editors #IRE24 speakers with R. First up: most popular names. The Matts by a margin! Matt Carroll Matt Topic Matt Dempsey Matt Kiefer Props to cephillips & Cheryl W. Thompson who have three sessions each & made the more-unique "Cheryl" into a powerhouse.


Are you a journalist keeping tabs on school board debates? Or tracking city contracts scooped up by certain companies? BIG LOCAL NEWS’ Agenda Watch platform is designed to help you shine light on the business of local government. Learn more at #IRE24: schedules.ire.org/ire-2024/index…


True accountability often relies on insiders coming forward with information for the public good. At #IRE24, let’s talk about whistleblowers and AI with Delphine Halgand-Mishra, Garance Burke and Erika Cheung, who was a key whistleblower in the Theranos scandal uncovered by The Wall Street Journal.



We partnered with BIG LOCAL NEWS to archive the data analysis from our brain waste series to ensure journalists are able to tell their own localized stories of brain waste. lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Need to analyze campaign finance data? Check out our new tool BIG LOCAL NEWS, DataTalk! biglocalnews.org/content/news/2…

Need to analyze campaign finance data? Check out the new tool from BIG LOCAL NEWS, DataTalk. #ddj #journalism buff.ly/3U4VfH8


hi world! are you interested in writing stories about campaign finance (or understand how money flows)? 🗣️📈DATATALK📈🗣️ is a platform for asking natural language Qs of FEC data that I've been working on with Stanford OVAL+BIG LOCAL NEWS+The Brown Institute datatalk.genie.stanford.edu

🧵Tool spotlight: Prompted by research by one of our engineers, Joseph Nudell, the United States Place Sampler tool by The Markup and BIG LOCAL NEWS provides insights into address-level internet access disparities. Read more here: zurl.co/k3G5



