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Inside ProPublica’s Article Layout Framework Original
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Editorial design is a many-splendored thing. Cliché as it may be to say a picture is worth a thousand words, there’s no denying that even the most skillful and vivid deployment of the written word can benefit from a thoughtful visual presentation. Photography, illustration and video can humanize a story’s characters.
Who’s Still Standing Among Trump’s Top Advisers
by Rob Weychert, Kyle Edwards and Anjali Tsui Updated Jan. 16, 2020 The administration of President Donald Trump has established a record for turnover among cabinet secretaries and senior advisers during a president’s first term, according to a Brookings Institution study. Here’s an updated guide to who’s in and who’s out. Do you work for the federal government? ProPublica wants to hear from you. We’re expanding our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.
What We Learned From Letting a Mother and Her Son Tell Their Own Story — ProPublica
This week, we published a story we wrote less than half of. Most of it was written eight years ago, by a mother whose then 10-year-old son was going through a clinical drug trial at the University of Illinois at Chicago that tested lithium on children with bipolar disorder.
They enrolled their son in a lithium trial at UIC. Instead of getting better, he got worse.
Turn off annotations Day 1: November 5, 2010 Wilson was excepted into the study! We are very excited but also worried. Wilson will have to go off all of his medications during the next three weeks. Then we go back to UIC and have some blood work done to make sure he is medication free and that he has no underlying health problems. If everything looks good he will begin the first faze of the study. Wilson: I was happy because I wanted to get better. I was really excited.
Meet Column Setter
This post was co-published with ProPublica. Grid systems are fundamental to many visual design processes. They govern the spatial relationships in a layout by establishing a set of standard sizes and positions for various elements. In addition to helping achieve a visual harmony between components, they make the design process faster and more efficient and help ensure decisions aren’t made arbitrarily.
Meet Column Setter
Grid systems are fundamental to many visual design processes. They govern the spatial relationships in a layout by establishing a set of standard sizes and positions for various elements. In addition to helping achieve a visual harmony between components, they make the design process faster and more efficient and help ensure decisions aren’t made arbitrarily. If you’re reading this post on ProPublica’s website, you’re looking at a page that was built using one.
Confusion, Fear, Cynicism: Why People Don’t Report Hate Incidents — ProPublica
It is one of the most striking and curious statistics contained in a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report on hate crimes in America: 54 percent of the roughly 250,000 people who said they were victimized in recent years chose not to file a formal complaint with the authorities. The Matthew Shepard Foundation, an advocacy organization based in Colorado that played a role in successfully pushing for national hate crime legislation, has recently tried to better understand the phenomenon.
Bombs in Our Backyards: How the Pentagon’s handling of munitions and their waste has poisoned America
RADFORD, Virginia — Shortly after dawn most weekdays, a warning siren rips across the flat, swift water of the New River running alongside the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. Red lights warning away boaters and fishermen flash from the plant, the nation’s largest supplier of propellant for artillery and the source of explosives for almost every American bullet fired overseas.
How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
Leer en Español. We have testimony from people who say they participated in the crime. They described some 50 trucks arriving in Allende, carrying people connected to the cartel. They broke into houses, they looted them and burned them. Afterward, they kidnapped the people who lived in those houses and took them to a ranch just outside of Allende. First they killed them. They put them inside a storage shed filled with hay.
The Chosen: Who Trump Is Putting in Power — ProPublica
As President Donald Trump picks his top officials, we’re laying out the best accountability reporting on each. Think we missed something? Email us or send us a tweet. We’ll keep this updated. Update, Jan. 19, 2018: With the first anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration approaching, we decided to update the cards to reflect changes both in personnel and, in some cases, in their roles. Update, Feb. 15, 2017: On Feb.
‘The Undefeated’ review by Rob Weychert • Letterboxd
Surely no one was more disappointed by Sarah Palin’s absence from the 2012 presidential race than Stephen K. Bannon, the director of this two-hour campaign commercial. The Undefeated is a chore. With “tell, don’t show” as its storytelling mantra, it chronicles Palin’s public works in her own words (using excerpts from her audiobook) and the words of the people who helped her.
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