Mapping Crime
New York news site DNAinfo has mapped data from the New York Police Department and the U.S. Census Bureau, Murray Weiss, columnist for DNAinfo, looks at the picture it paints of NYC neighborhoods.
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DNAinfo and Gothamist Shut Down After Employees Join Union
One week to the day after reporters and editors at the news outlets DNAinfo and Gothamist voted to join a union, their owner shut them down.Launched in 2009 by TD Ameritrade co-founder Joe Ricketts,...
View ArticleJoe Ricketts 'Followed Through on His Threat' to Close DNAinfo and Gothamist
Joe Ricketts, the Republican donor and billionaire co-founder of TD Ameritrade, started DNAinfo in 2009 out of a belief that local news was vital. Thursday at 5 p.m., he abruptly shuttered the site...
View ArticleBillionaire Shutters Local News Sites After Journalists Vote to Unionize
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. On Thursday, local news outlets DNAInfo, Gothamist, and their sister sites in Los Angeles, Chicago, and D.C. abruptly shuttered. The company's...
View ArticleWhat Communities Lose When There's No Local News
After the sudden closure of local news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist this week, the state of neighborhood news has been thrown into stark relief. In a statement, owner Joe Ricketts announced that he was...
View ArticleThe Ecstasy of Gold
Another massive data leak has cast scrutiny on the world of the ultra-wealthy, but some doubt whether much will change. A look inside the Paradise Papers and at the secretive industry of "wealth...
View ArticleWhen a Billionaire Buys Your Publication
For the last 20 years, the news industry has been crumbling. In an effort to stay solvent, both legacy media and digital newbies have increasingly looked toward deep-pocketed ownership to stay alive –...
View ArticleThe Fallout from Deregulating Hazardous Chemicals, Debunking 'Post-Truth,'...
Industrial hygienist Monona Rossol discusses how the Trump administration is weakening protections on hazardous chemicals. Slate columnist Dan Engber talks about his cover story for Slate called, “LOL...
View ArticleLocal News's Decline
Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and journalist and former Gothamist reporter Emma Whitford, discuss the state...
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