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GIJN guide to investigating extreme heat. Multiple angles to investigating extreme heat as a global phenomenon
How one investigation exposed an alarming threat to the US election — and why others should dig deeper. A blockbuster story in Rolling Stone magazine in July launched a new election focus area for investigative reporters in the US — and revealed an alarming new threat to the country’s increasingly fragile democracy
Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat. My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
Accuracy, objectivity, and trust in photojournalism. Five lessons from the journalistic failings of Jan Grarup
JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative. Enabling small and medium-sized publishers to experiment, implement and share best practices of AI technologies. Grants are as follows: 10 ideas will receive $250,000 each, 25 ideas $50,000 each. Deadline for receipt of applications: 10 October 2024
Covering the US election in Spanish for a Latino audience. Spain’s El País ventures into the world’s fifth-largest Spanish-speaking country: the United States
Generative AI (gen AI) is changing the game for software teams, but companies need to develop the right talent to take advantage of it. In a new McKinsey article, senior partners Martin Harrysson, Charlotte Relyea, and coauthors explore the new skills software engineers and product managers will need to develop in the age of gen AI, and how companies can orient their talent management practices skills for greater flexibility and responsiveness.
The looming threat (and possible solutions) to Latin America’s foreign donor-funded journalism. In a region plagued by poverty, inequality, and attacks on press freedom, Latin American journalists have ventured into non-profit journalism to uphold democracy
Two Hong Kong journalists from defunct media outlet Stand News found guilty of sedition. This is the first such conviction since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997
‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI. Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdown since disputed election
Google agreed to pay millions for California news. Journalists call it a bad deal
Dealing with the threat of war has become the “new normal” for these Middle East newsrooms. Newsroom editors from Lebanon’s ‘An-Nahar’ and Israel’s ‘Haaretz’ discuss staying on mission, caring for staff and being “always on standby” to cover the next round of violence
An ugly case of ‘false balance’ in the New York Times. The mainstream media is still getting it wrong about Trump
Image credit: Screenshot from What extreme heat does to the human body – and mental health by DW News