Tipsheet from today’s Investigative Reporters & Editors session on engagement experiments for investigations! #ire24 docs.google.com/presentation/d…

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Dug into the Group Violence Reduction Strategy's indictments for Baltimore Brew x garrisonproj "With these indictments, once you’re charged with conspiracy or criminal enterprise, it is a very easy charge to prove, and it’s a nearly impossible one to defend against."

🧵 We spoke with Jen Mizgata, a consultant and coach who specialises in improving work culture in newsrooms, about what it takes to build a better newsroom culture for both new and established media organisations. Here’s a roundup of seven tips from her in a THREAD 👇

More useful advice in the full article 👇 thefix.media/2024/4/26/how-…

(1/2) 2023-24 RJI Fellow Jen Mizgata spoke with The Fix Media about how to build a stronger newsroom culture for both new and established media organizations. Mizgata created the "Building News Culture" training course during her RJI Fellowship. thefix.media/2024/4/26/how-…

(2/2) Building News Culture email course: littlekeyconsulting.com/email-course.

Big news for Arizona Luminaria! This partnership with ProPublica will support an investigative reporter in our newsroom for Southern Arizona propublica.org/atpropublica/p…

You have one more week to apply for this awesome product manager job Texas Tribune! Come help us take our organizational priorities, processes and collaborations to the next level: texastribune.org/jobs/product-m…

“If you go through all of my commercials,” says Barry Glazer, who is not a self-reflective individual by nature, but driven by more material and base desires, “you’d get a really good insight into [who] I am and how I react. And what I’m all about.” baltimoremagazine.com/section/commun…

(1/2) 2023-2024 RJI Fellow Jen Mizgata, leadership coach and creator of "Building News Culture," will facilitate "What you're navigating at work" at 1:15 p.m. Aug. 15 at SRCCON 2024. #SRCCON24 2024.srccon.org/schedule/#_ses…

(2/2) Learn more about SRCCON 2024: 2024.srccon.org. OpenNews

"the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War" wsj.com/world/russia/e…

Finalists for INN's 2024 Nonprofit News Awards. Plenty of great reporting in here to check out. Very cool to see my Baltimore Brew x garrisonproj story on Baltimore's DAT as a finalist for "Best Investigative Journalism" (baltimorebrew.com/2023/11/10/bal…) inn.org/news/compulsiv…

New: Baltimore prosecutors just declined to charge an officer who pressed his service weapon against the temple of a 24 year-old Black man. But a review of body-worn camera footage and police reports found omissions and deep problems with the arrest. 1/5 baltimoremagazine.com/section/commun…

garrisonproj My previous DAT reporting: -2022 Real News piece on DAT's Luke Shelley: therealnews.com/training-days-… -2023 piece on DAT gun cases going to MD's higher courts: baltimoremagazine.com/section/commun… -2023 piece on Johnson and DAT's history of shootings baltimorebrew.com/2023/11/10/bal…

In the final part of our three-part investigation into Baltimore crime and crime data, we investigated the data itself. We found major discrepancies in arrest data, plenty of missing data (more is missing post-Consent Decree) and a long history of data manipulation.

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"Do you miss the golden era of feminist blogging?" I gave some money to launch The Flytrap and so can you! kickstarter.com/projects/andre…

Next Friday, 11/15, join us for an all-day conference: Media Mythmaking of Punishment and Safety: Changing the Narrative on Race, Crime & Reform 5 panels + Keynote by Yohance Lacour Free and open to the public, but space is limited! RSVP required: bit.ly/MediaMythmaking