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Christine SchmidtJanuary 31, 2019

Facebook roadblocks ProPublica’s ad transparency tool (gee, what a good time for a safe harbor)

“The fact that Facebook wants to be the ones who determine what kind of journalism gets done about Facebook is just not happening.”

A referendum on media experiments? Here’s what news organizations are toying with in the 2018 election cycle

People from 433 out of 435 congressional districts have signed up for ProPublica’s User Guide to Democracy, reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times want you to text them, and more. Christine Schmidt

Rachel GlickhouseOctober 12, 2018

Chasing leads and herding cats: How journalism’s latest job title — partner manager — works in ProPublica’s newsroom

“In short, we came to think that the collaboration itself was something that needed editing.”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 24, 2018

Watch out, algorithms: Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson unveil The Markup, their plan for investigating tech’s societal impacts

“Journalists in every field need to have more skills to investigate those types of decision-making that are embedded in technology.”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 7, 2018

Are you sure that promoted article is still political content, Facebook?

“Any human being that would put an eye on it would be able to say this is not political propaganda. This is really fair and well-documented journalism. It should not be confused.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 13, 2018

How not to be a parachute partner: ProPublica’s figured out how to collaborate with local newsrooms without bigfooting them

“We’re really proud of our work at the Southern Illinoisan, but we have a flashlight, not a lighthouse.”

Google, working with news orgs like ProPublica, will return more datasets in search results

Per Westergaard and Søren Schultz JørgensenJuly 11, 2018

54 newsrooms, 9 countries, and 9 core ideas: Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation

“Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter of technological challenges or broken business models.”

Christine SchmidtJune 28, 2018

Ten newsrooms, 4 countries, thousands of kids: ProPublica launches a project to find immigrant children

“This is the beginning of the reporting on this for our newsroom. We are being transparent about what we know and what we don’t know and what we need help with.”

A look at how foundations are helping the journalism industry stand up straight

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