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Tipsheet: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process to Evaluate National Human Rights Records
Investigating US Government — and Trump Administration — Influence in Your Country
Academic and Training Scholarships for Investigative Journalism
Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels
What’s the data-driven journalism crowd tweeting? Here are top links for Oct 17-22: challenging dataviz assumptions (@eagereyes); Clinton/Trump facial analysis (@TheEconomist); R & RStudio (@mjfrigaard); pharma money (@srfdata); code database (@srfdata); German lobbyists (@tagesspiegel); & more.
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Tipsheet: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process to Evaluate National Human Rights Records
Investigating US Government — and Trump Administration — Influence in Your Country
Academic and Training Scholarships for Investigative Journalism
Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels
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