Laura Hazard Owen

6 days ago | niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen

Last September, Theogony, the student newspaper of Alexandria City High School in Virginia, published a story: “Transportation issues plague school year.”Alexandria City High School (whose football team inspired the 2000 film “Remember the Titans”) has two campuses 0.6 miles apart, and students are required to take buses to shuttle between them throughout the school day. Julia Gwin, Theogony’s news editor, reported that the buses were routinely late, resulting in students missing class.

3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen

A three-pound bag of Wyman’s frozen wild blueberries. A pound of salmon. A dozen large brown eggs. Each month, students at the University of Southern Maine check the prices of these items, and more, at four grocery stores across the state: The Whole Foods in Portland, the Shaw’s in Bangor, the Walmart in Farmington, and the Hannaford in Caribou.

1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen

There’s a lot out there to leak. The second Trump administration, historically unfriendly to the press, has thrown Washington into chaos. Tens of thousands of federal employees have been placed on leave or fired as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE tries to gut the government. And taxpayer-funded data is being destroyed. Amid the confusion, news organizations and individual journalists are changing how they try to attract would-be tipsters.

1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen

LINK: www.nytimes.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen   |   April 1, 2025What would happen if Congress defunded NPR and PBS — something Republicans have renewed their push for following a House hearing last week?

1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen

LINK: www.nytimes.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen   |   March 19, 2025When ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight early this month, the site’s publicly available polling databases — like a presidential approval rating tracker — shut down, too. Many news outlets, including The New York Times and FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin, had relied on the data for election coverage, and people worried about its disappearance.