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Fatal flaws: How Kentucky fails its workers
Fatal flaws: How Kentucky fails its workers

Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Lisa Hobbs holds a photo of her and her husband dancing together. Her husband, Gene Hobbs, was run over by a coworker on a construction site in December 2016....

‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ of state worker safety programs
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ of state worker safety programs

Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Twenty-eight states and territories regulate their own workplaces rather than defer to the feds. While some of these programs are effective, others are in trouble for not adequatel...

Donors Invest Millions in Investigative Journalism Centers at US Universities
Donors Invest Millions in Investigative Journalism Centers at US Universities

Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Arizona State University, which boasts the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, is one of two universities to launch investigative reporting centers based on funding from the Scri...

The Death of Bulgarian Journalist Viktoria Marinova: A Scandal, a Murder and a Mystery
The Death of Bulgarian Journalist Viktoria Marinova: A Scandal, a Murder and a Mystery

Fri Nov 09 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova was working on what is known as the GP procurement scandal when she was killed. Photo: Facebook...

How to Identify Bots, Trolls and Botnets
How to Identify Bots, Trolls and Botnets

Mon Nov 05 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Over the past two years, words like “bots,” “botnets” and “trolls” have entered mainstream conversations about social networks and their impact on democracies. However, malicious s...

How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave
How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave

Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

The liberal money-gathering platform is remaking fundraising for the left...

GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Forecasting Elections, Counting Fast Food, Kampala’s Swamp City, Gasping for Air
GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Forecasting Elections, Counting Fast Food, Kampala’s Swamp City, Gasping for Air

Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? ...

Mail-In Ballot Postage Becomes a Surprising (and Unnecessary) Cause of Voter Anxiety
Mail-In Ballot Postage Becomes a Surprising (and Unnecessary) Cause of Voter Anxiety

Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

You can send your ballot in without a stamp, so why doesn’t anyone tell you that?...

'It's Impossible To Survive': Odisha Temple Priest Writes To SC Seeking To End His Life
'It's Impossible To Survive': Odisha Temple Priest Writes To SC Seeking To End His Life

Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

This comes after the Supreme Court suggested abolition of hereditary rights of servitors in Puri's Jagannath Temple....

The VA Shadow Rulers’ Signature Program Is “Trending Towards Red”
The VA Shadow Rulers’ Signature Program Is “Trending Towards Red”

Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

A $10 billion technology upgrade championed by Jared Kushner and the Mar-a-Lago trio is at risk of failing the VA’s 7 million patients....

Cobrapost Exclusive : TATA CLiQ Uses Bogus Reviews to Bolster Online Sales
Cobrapost Exclusive : TATA CLiQ Uses Bogus Reviews to Bolster Online Sales

Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

An analysis reveals the Tata group company is using fake reviews to lure gullible customers into buying from its online store...

Modi Govt Skips Global Air Pollution Meet For Sardar Patel Statue Unveiling As India Chokes
Modi Govt Skips Global Air Pollution Meet For Sardar Patel Statue Unveiling As India Chokes

Wed Oct 31 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Environment Minister Harsh Vardan, Health Minister JP Nadda and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of the BJP chose to flag off "Unity Run" instead....

Backlash over North Dakota voter ID law could rally Native Americans
Backlash over North Dakota voter ID law could rally Native Americans

Tue Oct 30 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Tribes — with celebrity help — are mobilizing members ahead of midterms...

How The UIDAI Built The Aadhaar Database, And Created A Security Mess In The Process
How The UIDAI Built The Aadhaar Database, And Created A Security Mess In The Process

Fri Sep 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Lakhs of untrained, poorly supervised people helped create the world’s largest biometric database. What happened when this access was taken away from them?...

Useful Chatbots, Less-Is-More Tables and Data Mapping Billions of Birds
Useful Chatbots, Less-Is-More Tables and Data Mapping Billions of Birds

Fri Sep 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?...

Sabarimala Temple Verdict: Supreme Court Says Women Can Enter Kerala Shrine
Sabarimala Temple Verdict: Supreme Court Says Women Can Enter Kerala Shrine

Fri Sep 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Lifting the ban on women's entry, CJI Dipak Misra said patriarchy of religion cannot be permitted to trump over faith ....

Why are corporations pouring millions into shoo-in governor races?
Why are corporations pouring millions into shoo-in governor races?

Sat Sep 22 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

Eight governors use war chests to shore up political power ahead of likely wins...

Document of the Day: Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018
Document of the Day: Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018

Sat Sep 22 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

The number of those who access news via their smartphones has doubled in the past six years. ...

NCW 'Fired' Two Women In 2016 After They Complained Of Sexual Harassment
NCW 'Fired' Two Women In 2016 After They Complained Of Sexual Harassment

Fri Sep 21 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

The two former employees have filed a case in the Delhi High Court accusing the National Commission for Women of sacking them due to their sexual harassment complaints against a se...

Sad Tunes Algorithm, Fragapane’s Beautiful Dataviz, African Pay Gap, Euro-Xenophobia
Sad Tunes Algorithm, Fragapane’s Beautiful Dataviz, African Pay Gap, Euro-Xenophobia

Fri Sep 21 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk

What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?...