On Sept. 6 of last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 179 into law and, with it, dedicated $25 million to funding local reporting in places underserved and underrepresented by the press in the state. The money … Read more
William Bender, an investigative reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, got thrown onto covering Doug Mastriano’s campaign for governor of Pennsylvania during the 2022 midterms. It wasn’t a traditional gubernatorial bid for many reasons … Read more
When an extraordinary heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, with temperatures soaring to a record 116 degrees in Portland, it sent a hard-to-ignore message that extreme heat has become an increasing danger — not just in … Read more
At the end of December 2020, freelance journalists Matteo Garavoglia and Youssef Hassan Holgado spent a month-and-a-half traveling across Tunisia to report on the 10th anniversary of the Jasmine Revolution, when large-scale protests led to the ousting of longtime … Read more
Primož Cirman started receiving orange, business-card-sized slips of paper in his Celje, Slovenia, mailbox in June 2020. They haven’t stopped coming. Each card is a notice that he has a piece of certified mail waiting for him at the … Read more
A popular traffic app could show you the queues building up at border crossings between Russia and its neighbors back in September, as young men evading mobilization sought to escape the country. Apple’s Find My tool can show you … Read more
Tantalizing bits of information were happily fed to the public in the days leading up to the release of “Confidence Man,” a meaty look at everything from Donald Trump’s upbringing to his presidency by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Read more
In 2021, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sued Andrea Gallo, a reporter for The Advocate and The Times-Picayune, for requesting access to public records related to sexual harassment complaints against the head of the state AG’s criminal division. Asserting … Read more
After another year marked by weather extremes globally, from unprecedented heat waves in Europe that saw airport runways buckle to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan that left a third of the country underwater and nearly 1,500 dead, climate … Read more
A few days before last November’s municipal elections in South Africa, local politician Siyabonga Mkhize was murdered. He was gunned down as he went door-to-door talking to his constituents in the neighborhood of Cato Crest. He was with three … Read more
