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Discovering what lies beneath the bad redaction
Luiz Toledo is committed to the goal of promoting information transparency in Brazil. The journalist is co-founder of Fiquem Sabendo, a nonprofit organization specializing in providing access to information in Brazil. He started a newsletter, Don’t LAI to Me, to help journalists and the general public better leverage the country’s Access to Information Law passed in 2012.
‘This is really concerning:’ Chicago air quality sensors show disparities across the city — and unexplained spikes in pollution
Why we're reporting on Chicago's air pollution and how to republish this story. Chicago’s air quality is among the worst in the U.S., and there are several local hotspots for particulate matter 2.5 — the tiny particles that come from diesel trucks and industry and enter people’s lungs and blood, causing significant health problems. Our ongoing series on Chicago air pollution can be republished under a Creative Commons license. For more information, click the republish button below.
MuckRock and reporting partners win 2022 Community Champion Award from Institute for Nonprofit News for ‘Uncounted’ COVID-19 project
MuckRock and its reporting partners, including the USA TODAY network and the Documenting COVID-19 project, a pandemic-era journalism project funded by Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation, won the 2022 Community Champion Award for large newsrooms as part of the Institute for Nonprofit News INNY Awards. The ongoing...
Long COVID is impacting millions of Americans. We want to hear from patients and people caring for them.
As U.S. officials have learned about lingering symptoms from COVID-19 cases over the past two years, both federal and state governments have promised continued support and resources to Long COVID patients. In an April 2022 statement, Biden administration officials said they had “mobilized to advance our nation’s understanding of Long COVID and its associated conditions, promote high-quality care for patients and help individuals access supportive services.”
Amanda Hickman joins MuckRock as non-profit’s first Chief Operating Officer
The journalism and transparency non-profit MuckRock Foundation announced today that Amanda Hickman will join the organization as its first Chief Operating Officer. The newly created role will oversee the expansion of MuckRock’s unique mix of software, services and reporting as the organization helps build more informed communities around the world.
In California, unhealthy pollution from wildfire smoke has become dangerously common
As wildfires have choked skies in the western United States, turning them vivid orange or sickly ochre, millions of people now live where smoke regularly makes breathing unhealthy, according to new estimates from a team based at Stanford University. That includes 21 times more Californians than a decade ago, scattered among vulnerable communities from the Oregon border to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and down through the Central Valley.
Michigan aims to boost child care supply by helping entrepreneurs navigate red tape
Michigan lost 637 child care programs since the start of the pandemic, a 7% loss that exacerbated families’ difficulties finding child care in many parts of the state. Michigan officials are betting they can begin to reverse that trend by helping would-be providers navigate an opening process that can be dizzyingly complex.
Join us on Democracy Day and use open records to spotlight threats to democracy
Democracy Day 2022 is almost here. MuckRock is excited to be one of an ever-growing list of organizations taking part in the coordinated initiative on September 15, spearheaded by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. Launched to spread awareness associated with the ongoing threats to democracy, Democracy...
What We Learned About Michigan’s Child Care Crisis From Parents and Providers
In May, the nonprofit journalism site MuckRock and several Michigan newsrooms published its initial findings on Michigan’s child care crisis, including the high number of facility closures during the pandemic. We invited Michiganders to tell us about their experiences on both sides of the child care industry — as...
Building trust before collaborating and other lessons from the Transparency Corps
Since I began my work in the MuckRock Transparency Corps I have had the opportunity to work alongside some very knowledgeable folks and collaborate in a manner I didn’t know was possible. I work for a hyperlocal newsroom in Cicero, Illinois, and feel relatively inexperienced compared to the rest...
Air Quality Access: How local government is planning (or not) to protect your air
Beginning in the late 1980s, county officials in Riverside, California, approved dozens of new business projects that would transform an area of the Jurupa Valley from a dairy farm capital to a hub for warehousing and diesel trucks. In the following decade, developers snapped up sprawling farmland and turned it...
How is wildfire smoke changing your daily life?
NPR’s California Newsroom is collaborating with MuckRock and Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation to investigate how wildfires affect air quality across the country. If the smoke from wildfires is damaging your health, disrupting your daily routine or forcing you to consider moving elsewhere, we want to hear from you.
New York City wastewater shows link between cryptic COVID variants and worse phases of the pandemic
This article was produced in partnership with the Gothamist. In a new study, Columbia University researchers have identified coronavirus mutations in New York City wastewater that seem to appear when severe disease rates begin to rise. The findings may pinpoint subtle, understated variants in the pandemic that are affecting day-to-day outcomes, including hospitalization and death, without doctors noticing.
Air quality access: Using complaints, violations and fines to pinpoint local polluters
Freelance journalist Monica Vaughan has knocked on many doors and even car windows to ask Californians about air quality and their health, but her perspective changed after hearing a question that had bugged one resident for a while. “I just scan the stories looking for the sentence about whether or...
Air Quality Access: Three requests to help you scrutinize local environmental standards
In 2004, Dina Cappiello, then a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, discovered that residents in the Allendale area of Houston were exposed to a cancer-causing toxin called 1,3-butadiene at a level 20 times higher than federal guidelines — for toxic waste dumps. In a nearby area, levels of the...
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