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How Satellite Imagery Became an Indispensable — and Easily Accessible — Tool for Journalists
Wed Nov 21 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
In July 2018, a disturbing video began circulating on social media. It shows two women and two young children being led at gunpoint away from a village by a group of soldiers. ...
Mining bitcoin to back political candidates?
Tue Nov 20 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Election watchdog asked to weigh in on new blockchain frontier in politics...
Want People to Read Your Investigation? Make Sure You Tell a Good Story
Tue Nov 20 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Great investigative reporting often turns into bad, hard-to-read articles. At best, stories like these are boring; at worst, they are impossible to understand. Sadly, these stories...
Al Qaeda in Kashmir: The Strange Tale Of The Valley's Loneliest Militant
Fri Nov 16 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Is former Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa's Ansar Ghawzat-Ul-Hind a front for India or Pakistan?...
When It Comes to Rape, Just Because a Case Is Cleared Doesn’t Mean It’s Solved
Fri Nov 16 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Some police departments, turning to a designation that’s supposed to be used sparingly, make it seem as though they’ve solved a significant number of rape cases when they have simp...
Nearly All the Officers in Charge of an Indiana Police Department Have Been Disciplined — Including the Chief Who Keeps Promoting Them
Fri Nov 16 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Of the 34 supervisors in the Elkhart, Indiana, Police Department, 28 have been disciplined. Fifteen have been suspended. Seven have been involved in fatal shootings. Three have bee...
Latin American Investigations Honored in Bogotá
Fri Nov 16 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Winners of the Javier Valdez Latin American Award for Investigative Journalism in Bogotá, Colombia. Image: Courtesy of COLPIN....
GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Number Jungles, Gender Gaps, Uber Maps, Brexit Woes
Fri Nov 16 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? ...
“Pretty Much a Failure”: HUD Inspections Pass Dangerous Apartments Filled With Rats, Roaches and Toxic Mold
Fri Nov 16 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The system for inspecting federally subsidized properties is failing low-income families, seniors and people with disabilities and undermining the agency’s oversight, The Southern ...
GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson is winning a medal. But are Republicans losing the political money war?
Fri Nov 16 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Conservatives at odds over whether they’re cultivating enough new donors...
Smriti Irani Expertly Trolled Ranveer-Deepika For Making Everyone Wait For Their Wedding Pictures
Thu Nov 15 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Minister channelled her inner millennial and came up with a meme to troll the newly married couple....
Brothers Who Were Online Friends With Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Had Ties to Violent Neo-Nazis
Thu Nov 15 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The authorities said they arrested a Washington, D.C., man who had hailed the suspect and might have known more about the attack. The man and his brother had talked of wanting to k...
On the Frontlines of Russia’s Propaganda War, Here’s How Ukrainian Groups Are Fighting Back
Thu Nov 15 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
In August, BuzzFeed News broke a major story about the Russian propaganda machine....
Sabarimala Row: Kerala Govt Convenes All-Party Meeting Tomorrow
Wed Nov 14 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The temple had witnessed a string of protests from devotees when it opened for monthly pujas in October and two days early this month....
Flipkart's Binny Bansal's Resignation Is Startup India's Moment of Reckoning
Wed Nov 14 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Walmart pushed out founder after rumours of sexual harassment, suggesting need to focus on corporate governance...
New Models: How Academics, Nonprofit News and Government are Collaborating
Wed Nov 14 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Global Reporting Centre has launched an ambitious project investigating labor abuse, environmental impact and corruption in global commerce....
West Virginia’s Natural Gas Industry Keeps Pushing to Whittle Away Payments to Residents
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Companies are deducting “post-production” costs or creating shell companies to reduce royalty payments. The firms say they have done nothing wrong....
Drilling overwhelms agency protecting America's lands
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Bureau of Land Management is making it easier to produce oil and gas on federal acreage. In southeastern New Mexico, it can't even keep up with what's already happening....
Fake News On Twitter Won’t Have A Single Fix, Said CEO Jack Dorsey
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
'It’s a lot like security, no one can build a perfect lock,' Dorsey said, explaining why fake news is not an easy problem to solve....
Stan Lee, Pioneer Of The Marvel Universe, Dead At Age 95
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Lee was the co-creator of Marvel Comics characters including Spider-Man, Thor, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther and the Avengers....