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Sparks in the Outposts: Building Parapets and Bearing Weight
Living in a small town or a remote outpost strips away the luxury of passive belonging. When you live in a dense metropolitan center, Jewish infrastructure is ambient—it surrounds you whether you actively contribute to it or not. On the periphery, however, Jewish life does not run on institutional momentum. It runs entirely on the shoulders of individuals who decide to show up, take responsibility, and do the heavy lifting themselves.
Sparks in the Outposts: Building Parapets and Bearing Weight
Living in a small town or a remote outpost strips away the luxury of passive belonging. When you live in a dense metropolitan center, Jewish infrastructure is ambient—it surrounds you whether you actively contribute to it or not. On the periphery, however, Jewish life does not run on institutional momentum. It runs entirely on the shoulders of individuals who decide to show up, take responsibility, and do the heavy lifting themselves.
OpEd: How two major health systems partner on pediatric hospital
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital provides rehabilitation therapies and coordinated care after children leave intensive care units. The joint ownership model is unlike any other in the country.
#retail #apparel #marksandspencer #nordstrom
In 2025, Marks & Spencer was the most visited UK retailer for clothing. Over a fifth of the UK population walked through its doors, or clicked onto its website, to browse apparel. The high profile isn't new. M&S has long been an iconic part of the UK retail landscape, where it has been outfitting people for generations. However, what has changed over recent years is the confidence of M&S in apparel. A big investment in style and quality has changed perceptions and attracted some younger consumers.
Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
Feb. 8, 2026, 11:35 a.m. The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed. This story was originally published by Source, a website from OpenNews that amplifies the impact of journalism code and the community of developers, designers, journalists, and editors who make it. If you’ve worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the “show your work” spirit was everywhere.
Journalism lost its culture of sharing
If you’ve worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the “show your work” spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media and unfurled long blogs guiding others on how to get things done. You might also have a vague sense that — like reaction GIFs, demotivational posters and that guy who sang “Chocolate Rain” — you’re seeing less of it these days. We crunched the numbers, and your hunch is right.
“Show your work” makes a triumphant return
“Show your work” makes a triumphant return “News organizations will realize that sharing their methods — like publishing detailed methodologies, developing projects in the open, and yes, giving away stuff for free — is essential to building trust with their communities.” -8220-how-your-work-8221-makes-a-triumphant-return Next year will herald the return of open source culture in newsrooms. But first, some history: In the spring of 2008, I was working at ProPublica.
'Last Call,' a new play by Peter Danish about Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan...perfs begin 3/12 at New World Stages
Last Call, a new play by Peter Danish (The Tenor, The Blind Date; Amazon’s #1 best-selling book I'll Give You Exactly Five Minutes) and directed by Gil Mehmert (ONCE; The Elephant Man, Of Mice and Men), begins performances at New World Stages, Stage 5 (340 W. 50th Street, New York, NY 10019) on March 12, with opening night set for March 16, it was announced today by producers Frank Blase and Marc Schneider. Last Call will play a limited engagement through May 4.
Guest Editorial: Why is the mayor silent on alleged election law violations?
By Scott Klein The dark forces of American politics paid a visit to Hamtramck to have a look around. It wasn’t the first visit, and undoubtedly it will not be the last. That an extreme right-wing website sent “investigators” to this place should surprise no one. Rumors of voter fraud, vote buying schemes, and hijinks at the polls have ebbed and flowed in the city for as long as Hamtramck has been a place. Because of this, occasionally, somebody decides to look around and see what they can find.
How to Navigate Developing Countries as a LGBTQ+ Traveler
How to Navigate Developing Countries as a LGBTQ+ Traveler Looking for new destinations and adventures as an LGBT+ traveler? Europe and the Caribbean have long been popular destinations for gay cruises and land tours – with good reason – but eventually travelers yearn for new and more exotic experiences. Fortunately, LGBT+ travel company Brand g Vacations – the #1 operator of luxury all-LGBT+ cruises and land tours – offer vacations to some of the most #lifechanging destinations on earth.
Joining the team at Mindbloom
In January of this year, I had the most intensely beautiful experience of my life - a psychedelic medicine ceremony and healing journey, where a therapist supported me working through my tougher formative experiences and unconscious belief systems. It was five hours flush with more connectedness and unity than I could have dreamed of, even if very difficult at times.
Scott Eric Klein Presents A Breathtaking Beachfront Unit In Sunny Isles Beach
Scott Eric Klein presents BEST PRICED RESIDENCE IN THE BUILDING at 2,300 Sq Ft. Welcome to Chateau Beach Residences, a prime beachfront property with breathtaking Ocean, Intercoastal, and City skyline views. Welcome home to the 20th floor, complete with designer finishes, a state-of-the-art open kitchen, high-end appliances, and electric shades throughout.
D. H. Lawrence and Tabloids of Compressed Liberty
So goes a minor interaction during a party at an English aristocratic estate in D. H. Lawrence’s 1920 novel Women in Love. Lawrence had a sometimes dangerous habit of caricaturing members of his larger social group in his fiction, and also of repaying lingering grudges against quondam friends. In this case, the fictional sociologist Sir Mattheson stands in for the noted (and later Nobel Prize-winning) philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Lawrence had met in 1915.
Scott Eric Klein Presents A Breathtaking Ocean View Apartment In Miami Beach
Scott Eric Klein presents Enjoy breathtaking direct ocean views from each corner of this two-bedroom apartment in the heart of Miami Beach. It's sold fully furnished. The unit features 2 BD, 2 BA, a den, an expansive terrace accessible from all living areas, an open kitchen, custom-frame interior doors, marble floors, walk-in closets, and more.
SOLD! Scott Eric Klein Presents An Amazing Bay View Apartment In Miami Beach
Scott Eric Klein presents Direct bay view with amazing sunsets, one of the best lines in the building, 2 bedrooms, a large living area, and home office space. Totally renewed kitchen and appliances, 2 renovated bathrooms. Floor-to-ceiling sliding doors, second bedroom with balcony access, and an abundance of natural light.
Scott Eric Klein Presents A Gorgeous 3 Bedroom Residence In Miami Beach
Scott Eric Klein presents, courtesy of Compass Rare opportunity to own a 3 BD, 3BA residence in a condo-hotel located in Miami Beach's South of Fifth neighborhood. As one of the few licensed short-term rentals in Miami Beach, this is an ideal residence as a second home you can rent without restrictions. The low maintenance fee makes it a great investment property with a unique oversized, 1,000 SF balcony, ideal for entertaining.
SOLD! Scott Eric Klein Presents An Exquisite Custom Built Penthouse In Miami
Scott Eric Klein presents An exquisite tri-level, custom-built, lower penthouse that boasts the finest details throughout, with breathtaking picturesque bay, city, and ocean views! This 4 bedroom 5.5 baths is 4450sf (PER CONDO ASSOCIATION)) 1749sf exterior, with 20FT soaring ceilings with expansive walls of glass! Architect/design by EcoTek (Jan Stanbury) Opustone white porcelain floors 3x3 tiles, La Finestra metal & glass doors, Moduhome Italian closets, summer kitchen with private pool and...
How Big Local News helped data journalists cover the midterms
Last month the Big Local News team joined forces with reporters across America to cover the country’s midterm elections. Here are six examples of how our services helped local newsrooms do more with data. LAist Our team partnered with news developers at LAist, a public media site based in Pasadena, to provide live election results after polls closed on November 8.
Scott Eric Klein Presents 2 Exceptional Combined Apartments In Miami Beach
Scott Eric Klein presents Located at The Retreat, 2 combined one-bedroom apartments, units 401 and 402, are connected by 2 doors. One is a large corner 2/1 (953sf), owner occupied, and the other is a furnished studio (515sf) that is rented with a 60-day kick-out clause.
MAP: Did Your NYC Neighborhood Turn Out to Vote?
Explore voter turnout in New York City in the 2022 general election.
Why breaking down language barriers is not only good for business but essential
Any business that does not have a sophisticated plan to communicate in multiple languages is looking at its potential business through a keyhole. That company may as well not have a website. Here’s why: The U.S. Census recently released a once-in-a-decade look at diversity in America. The data showed a country that looks much more like its future than its past.
Want to Join the Crypto Conversation? Start with a Nimbus Platform Review
Cryptocurrency isn’t just some incomprehensible tech talk anymore. Now, it’s the topic of conversation at book clubs and barbecues. Although not everyone understands blockchain technology and digital finance, it seems no one fails to appreciate the potential opportunities the new currency offers. Almost 90% of US adults have heard of it, while Europe enjoys being the biggest crypto-economy in the world.
Royal Statistical Society Publications
William Playfair (1759–1823) may justly be called the father of infographics, or information visualisation. He was the first to make significant use of pictures to make sense of empirical data. His interest was in making economic, political, and financial information speak more clearly than tables of numbers ever could. He invented the time series line graph, the bar chart, the pie chart, and circle diagram, as well as more complicated charts which combined these forms.
Why We Published More Than 500 Videos Taken by Parler Users of the Capitol Riot
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Sunday, ProPublica published an interactive database that lets users sift through a trove of videos taken during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and uploaded to Parler, the social network popular among supporters of President Donald Trump that was dropped by its web host Amazon earlier this month.
How to Start Learning to Program
A journalist I follow on Twitter recently asked me the best way to start to learn how to program. It’s a question I get asked a lot and, although it has been said before, here’s my advice for learning how to program: The most important thing, by far, is to find a project you are dedicated to completing. Pick something that will disappoint you or your employer if you don't finish it. There are two reasons for this. First, you'll learn best if you attach new knowledge to old.
Zero Evidence That Our Election Was Rigged
News » National We had more than 1,000 people watching the vote on Election Day. If millions of people voted illegally, we would have seen some sign of it. by Jessica Huseman, ProPublica and Scott Klein, ProPublica November 28, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to claim that he would have won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." There is no evidence that millions of people voted illegally.
Guest Editorial: Beware of candidates who cause political division
By Scott Klein Since the time of Mayor Robert Kozaren, and probably before, politicians, candidates and assorted near-do-wells have tried to make a person’s indebtedness to the city an issue in the election. It hasn’t worked. So, yet again, a newcomer has arrived and is stirring the pot. Among other things, the attack is disingenuous. Property taxes and water bills are two legs of a three-legged stool. What about city income tax?
Pipe math: Bringing perspective to the artisan pipe market
Of all the personality types I encounter shopping at pipe shows, one variety that sticks out conspicuously is the folks doing their pipe math. You see it at every show: A person will pick up a pipe and go immediately for the price tag. Granted, some are really just unaware of the prices and would like to see what you are asking for your work. And there are those specifically shopping for the cheapest pipes they can find in a particular finish and style.
Covering the Midterms With Electionland 2018 — ProPublica
In the run-up to the 2016 election, ProPublica organized a project called Electionland to cover voting, nationally and in real time. Along with a coalition of news organizations and tech companies, we brought together more than 1,100 journalists around the country to cover impediments like restrictive voting laws, allegations of voter fraud, voter harassment, equipment failures and long lines — all of which can effectively disenfranchise eligible voters and erode the integrity of the vote.
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New in Nonprofit Explorer: People Search — ProPublica
Today we’re launching a new feature in our Nonprofit Explorer database. You can now search for board members and key employees who work at nonprofit organizations by name. The database includes everyone listed on nonprofit tax returns filed electronically between 2014 and 2017. The data includes each person’s reported title and base compensation. You can find the people search on the Nonprofit Explorer front page if you click on the “Search for People” tab in the blue search box.
Announcing the ProPublica News Apps Fellowship
Update 2/13: The position has been filled. The ProPublica News Apps desk is looking for a smart, technically-savvy journalist to join our team for a pilot project we’re calling a News Applications Fellowship. In this special internship, which is paid and will run until the end of the year, you’ll help us test a hypothesis: Can a smart, technical journalist with excellent and proven skills in other nerdy newsroom disciplines like graphics and CAR become a news app developer?
Our Font Is Made of People
Earlier this week, ProPublica released their second font, Wee People, a free collection of human silhouettes. We love fonts and (tiny people and small multiples and wanted to know more, including the path from data viz expert Alberto Cairo’s original illustrations through to the font as it was released. We checked in with Cairo and ProPublica’s Scott Klein, who put the font together, about how they got it done.
What the Trump tapes can teach us about news archives | Poynter
The recent emergence of the bombshell "Access Hollywood" clip that sat in the NBC vaults for over a decade before wreaking havoc on the Trump campaign illustrates the value of keeping archival material searchable and retrievable. The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan recently listed several “journalism lessons” that reporters could take from the current presidential campaign. Among her many takeaways was this: “Research your own company’s archives.
How We Made ProPublica.org Look Better on Your Smartphone
Today we're launching a new look for people reading ProPublica on smartphones. In order to make our site more welcoming for the increasing number of you who read us on your smartphones, we've redesigned and re-engineered the site so that people on small screens will automatically see a version of the site optimized to fit them. If you're on a smartphone, you've already seen the new look. You don’t need any app or special URL to see it. Just go to www.propublica.org.
Introducing Our Data Journalism Advisers
It’s no secret that we like math at ProPublica. Our data team creates its own statistical models, drawing insights that support — and help guide — reporting done in more traditional ways. We feel strongly that investing in quantitative methods can help a newsroom find stories that would otherwise go unreported. We have four full-time data journalists, as well as a team of developer-journalists and a wider newsroom that’s full of very nerdy reporters.
8 Tips on Getting a Newsroom Data Team Started
This story was co-published with Nieman Lab. Thursday morning, a post by journalist Miguel Paz on a data-journalism email list asked for tips for starting a data-journalism team. I had many thoughts on the subject, and nothing to read on the subway, so I ended up writing this long response on my smartphone: Help the organization build on successes. Work hard and create great projects. Go viral. Get covered. Win awards.
A note to users of DocumentCloud.org – Aron Pilhofer – Medium
It was just about nine years ago when Eric Umansky, Scott Klein and I hit upon an idea we hoped might help journalists be a little more transparent in their reporting. We believed then (and still do today) that if journalists were more open about their sourcing, it would help people differentiate between real reporting and nonsense.
Electionland: The Inside Story
The Google News Lab commissioned a case study on Electionland, a journalism project that ProPublica helped organize and participated in last year. The report was released today and is available for download. The 66-page report was researched and written by Cassandra Lord, a writer and consultant based in London. It’s being released on the first day of the Collaborative Journalism Summit, a conference taking place this week at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Introducing Vital Signs
Miguel Montaner for ProPublicaProPublica has accumulated a wealth of data about how medicine is really practiced in the U.S. We’ve got millions of data points on things we believe everyone should know about his or her providers, like whether they’ve been barred from federal health care programs, their prescribing and treatment patterns, and how much money pharmaceutical companies pay them for things like consulting and speaking.
2016: The Year in Visual and Interactive Storytelling
From the U.S. presidential election to risky urban infrastructure, dubious drug tests to the algorithms that rule our lives, here are some highlights from a year of ambitious interactive journalism and visual storytelling at ProPublica.
There’s Absolutely No Evidence That the Election Was Rigged
If millions of people voted illegally, we would have seen some sign of it. President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter last Sunday to claim that he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” There is no evidence that millions of people voted illegally. If there were, we’d have seen some sign of it.
Trump says millions voted illegally, but facts say otherwise
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter last Sunday to claim that he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” There is no evidence that millions of people voted illegally. If there were, we’d have seen some sign of it.ProPublica was an organizing partner in Electionland, a project run by a coalition of organizations including Google News Lab, Univision, WNYC, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the USA Today Network.
There’s No Evidence Our Election Was Rigged — ProPublica
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to claim that he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” There is no evidence that millions of people voted illegally. If there were, we’d have seen some sign of it. ProPublica was an organizing partner in Electionland, a project run by a coalition of organizations including Google News Lab, Univision, WNYC, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the USA Today Network.
Taking Cues, and Some Projects, From Sunlight Labs
Late last month, a pioneer of the civic-tech and open-data movements announced they were changing direction in a big way. The Sunlight Foundation, founded a decade ago to advocate for a more “open and accountable government,” wrote on their website that they were planning to shutter Sunlight Labs, a division dedicated to building useful tools out of the often arcane data released by federal and state governments. The survival of the rest of the institution is also in doubt.
One Reason U.S. Election Administration is so Complex
One of the reasons that election administration in the U.S. is so complex and, at times, chaotic, is that the system was designed to be decentralized. The following is from a committee report for the 2002 Help America Vote Act. Get Our Top Investigations Subscribe to the Big Story newsletter. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Trump Warns Crowd About Voter Fraud (Again)
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How (and Why) ProPublica Got Into the Elections Game
Yesterday morning, ProPublica announced two new projects: Electionland (announcement post), a large-scale intiative to report on voting access and problems in the upcoming US elections, and Election DataBot (announcement post), a comprehensive election-info data tracker and feed. We spoke with four members of the team on the OpenNews community call and by phone, and asked them to walk us through the projects. The transcripts have been edited for length and clarity.
Election DataBot: harnessing the power of the matrix | Simon Rogers on WordPress.com
There’s no shortage of public data out there around the election — FEC filings, demographic data from the census, even search data from Google… the list is long and complicated. But imagine if, like Neo in The Matrix, you could plug yourself into that election feed and get a complete grasp of all the data in one place? That’s where the Election DataBot comes in.
Monitoring the Vote With Electionland
Monitoring the Vote With Electionland Today we’re announcing a new project, aimed at monitoring the vote in real-time, nationwide. And you’re invited to join. There is no more essential act in a democracy than voting. But making sure that the balloting is open to all and efficiently administered has been, at best, a low priority for many state legislatures, a victim of misplaced priorities and, at times, political gamesmanship.
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