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White, male and millennial: Hate groups tap bro culture to recruit members
Thu Aug 30 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
This report is part of the “Hate in America" project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism student...
Why I Think Slovak Journalist Jan Kuciak’s Murder Will Never Be Investigated
Wed Aug 29 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Slovak authorities are not doing enough to investigate the murder of my friend and colleague. If journalists have to do the police’s job to discover the truth, then we will....
Is the U.S. government wasting millions on trips abroad?
Wed Aug 29 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Compared to other countries, American officials often receive more generous reimbursements for food and lodging...
Nuclear Safety Board Slams Energy Department Plan to Weaken Oversight
Wed Aug 29 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Trump administration defended an order that could be used to withhold information about nuclear facilities from a federal board, but its leader says the action is not consisten...
Elgaar Parishad probe: 3 arrested activists to be produced in Pune court today
Wed Aug 29 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Elgaar Parishad probe: Pune police sources have claimed that Tuesday's arrests followed a probe into at least 200 communications between the five people arrested in June....
US, Russia engage in war of words as Syria attack looms
Wed Aug 29 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Washington and Moscow trade chemical attack warnings as Russian naval buildup grows ahead of strike on Syria's Idlib....
10 Investigative Tools You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Wed Aug 29 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Investigations, the saying goes, are just regular stories with a lot more labor put in. Investigative reporters spend inordinate amounts of time sifting through documents, verifyin...
Asbestos concerns arise at the Federal Election Commission
Wed Aug 29 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Union representing agency employees warns of ‘potential exposure’...
US vows to fight Iran lawsuit in international court
Tue Aug 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Tehran accuses Washington of 'naked economic aggression' and urges UN's top court in The Hague to nullify US sanctions....
When The Solution Became The Problem: The Controversy Over Failing VVPATs
Tue Aug 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Since their first use in 2013, for the Noksen assembly seat in Nagaland, the VVPAT slips have been tallied over 500 times. In each case, the EVM votes have matched the VVPAT slips....
Bias-response teams criticized for sanitizing campuses of dissent
Tue Aug 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Conservatives and alt-right followers claim colleges are sanitizing campuses of dissent, in violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech....
How Local News Outlets Can Build an Online Audience
Tue Aug 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
We lead a research project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School called the Single Subject News Project, funded by the Knight...
Embattled Garbage Hauler Co-Owns Dump With Person Expelled From Trash Industry, Records Show
Tue Aug 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential impropriety involving Sanitation Salvage....
JNU Is Being Destroyed So The Jio Model Can Succeed
Mon Aug 27 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
In the past two years of the JNU vice chancellor's tenure, the university’s students witnessed crackdowns on nearly every expression of free thought and critical thinking....
How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses
Mon Aug 27 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small town...
Document of the Day: YouTube Video SEO Tips
Sat Aug 25 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
If your investigative documentary or journalism video is hosted on YouTube, you might want to check out this useful graphic on YouTube SEO statistics created by tech enthusiast Sak...
Lack of trust in law enforcement hinders reporting of LBGTQ crimes
Sat Aug 25 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Violent crimes and other hate incidents targeting LGBTQ Americans consistently are unreported and often not prosecuted...
Egyptian Bots, Pocket Inequality, Loner Jobs and Knife Emergencies
Fri Aug 24 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?...
Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections
Fri Aug 24 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions....
Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It
Fri Aug 24 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals....