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11 September 2020
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Health officials in North Carolina have shown that contact tracing can successfully identify those who have been exposed to COVID-19. The efforts of the contact tracers in one county resulted in 35 people being quaran...
5 September 2020
United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
Logically is an app that fact-checks news in real time using artificial intelligence and 30 employees. They review more than 500,000 articles a day. In 2019, the app found 12-14% of articles about the U.K. and Indian ...
4 September 2020
Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Learning from the failures of the 2020 Pennsylvania primary, where a sharp increase in mail-in voting led to a 2-week delay in certifying election results and many ballots being invalidated, officials introduced a bil...
2 September 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Groups in the Bay Area that have successfully sought to have police disciplined for misconduct and won new police-accountability policies have turned their form of organized monitoring into a training platform for pro...
2 September 2020
New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Although public health experts agree that New York was initially slow to implement protocols to protect citizens from COVID-19, they also agree that the state was able to gain control over the virus due to the actions...
26 August 2020
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Milwaukee was one of the first U.S. cities to show that communities of color were disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic because of a framework that had been established and implemented after the city...
25 August 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
With 75 micro-grants totaling $200,000, community organizations in Cleveland encourage people to complete the census in innovative ways. The Cleveland Caravan, or La Caravana, is a collaborative effort where trucks pl...
21 August 2020
South Dakota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Contact tracing has been touted as an effective tool for slowing the spread of COVID-19 and has shown success in countries such as South Korea – helping to not just identify potential superspreader events, but to also...
20 August 2020
California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Solar development can reduce or significantly alter local biodiversity, and this should be considered when planning sustainability projects in the desert, argues a new study. Scientists measured the impact of a solar ...
14 August 2020
United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
Logically is a fact-checking app that combines AI technology and human research to assess and label the truthfulness of news articles. The app has about 20,000 users after a soft launch in the UK, with a full launch p...
13 August 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Beyond These Walls launched a crisis phone line to provide emotional support for LGBTQ+ people who are incarcerated and to hold prisons and jails accountable for their virus-containment practices. Trained volunteers h...
31 July 2020
Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Officials in Oregon, where voters have voted by mail in statewide elections for decades, point to their successful system to counter Donald Trump’s claim that voting by mail is “rigged” and results could take “years.”...
21 July 2020
Germany
Text
1500-3000 Words
To contain the spread of the coronavirus, Germany relied heavily on communication and information tactics that prioritized the voices of health and science officials. Although misinformation was still a problem for th...
20 July 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Traditional police interrogation tactics that emphasize invading someone’s personal space to increase anxiety, read body language, and prompt confessions have had to undergo changes during the pandemic, some of which ...
17 July 2020
New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When New York legislators abolished a state law that had long shielded police officers’ disciplinary records from public scrutiny, they were not just responding to recent protests but also to activism over many years ...
15 July 2020
Taiwan
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1500-3000 Words
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, Taiwan – a country of nearly 24 million people – has reported less than 500 cases and only seven deaths, largely due to the rapid implementation of a public health emergency response pl...
14 July 2020
Arkansas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Arkansas’ judicial oversight agency has the staffing and persistence to hold bad judges accountable in ways that counter a nationwide pattern of weak enforcement and judicial impunity. The Arkansas Judicial Discipline...
7 July 2020
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Mothers of young Latino men killed by sheriff’s deputies in East Los Angeles have struggled to pry information from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, but along the way they have formed a network of support ...
6 July 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Students at colleges across the U.S. are taking to social media to confront racism and biases at their campuses. Over 40 "Black at" Instagram accounts were launched in June on which students share their personal stori...
30 June 2020
Rochester, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A change in communication policies and outreach procedures has helped the UR Medicine Home Care program retain employees during the coronavirus pandemic, despite increasingly difficult work conditions. Part of this ef...
25 June 2020
San Quentin, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
San Quentin Prison's media created by the men incarcerated there have gone beyond rehabilitation of individuals to a broader mission of promoting criminal justice policy reform by reframing the narrative about those w...
Nigeria Health Watch
Bashar Abubakar
25 June 2020
Kano, Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
When COVID-19 cases began spreading in Kano, the local maternity hospital saw a decrease in patients coming for their appointments, so the hospital adapted and started seeing the women in their own homes. Using their ...
24 June 2020
Woodlynne, New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
New Jersey’s responses to police misconduct offer stark lessons in how certain failures can allow troubled officers to hop from job to job undetected. The state lacks a central database of police misconduct and remain...
20 June 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Record high voter turnout in New York's 2018 primaries was due in part to grassroots groups effectively harnessing voters’ anger towards the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of State Senate Democrats w...
17 June 2020
Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The groundswell for greater accountability in police shootings has barely caused a ripple in Hawaii, where the state’s Law Enforcement Officer Independent Review board has finished only one case in its first three yea...
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