📣TOMORROW | 9/20 at 10AM ET Join us for “Human Rights Leaders Discuss Impacts of the Trump Administration’s ‘America First’ Approach on Rights.” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social will speak about the state of human rights and key developments from this week at #UNGA80. tinyurl.com/4jafnd8u

CUNY's new rapid response legal resource is now available for current students and employees who have been impacted by immigration policy changes, are facing issues traveling in and out of the country or have been detained by law enforcement. For more information, visit cuny.edu/CIAP.

Students can now check out the books we selected for National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs through October 15. These titles explore data and narrative stories about migration and the Latino community in the U.S.

Domestic Workers in New York Face Low Pay, Exploitation — and Fear of Deportation documentedny.com/2025/09/10/d...

Analysis of the merits of using AI summaries from February: bsky.app/profile/kall...

Here is a useful list of google search operators for high-power searching. 🔍 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Happy first day of school, NYC! An auspicious day to check out these data files that consolidate budgets and allocations for every NYC public school for the past eight years. github.com/BetaNYC/nyc-...

If you're looking for community level data, boundaries are the coin of the realm. Check out this great map that shows boundaries for community districts, state assembly districts, zip codes, and more! boundaries.beta.nyc

Want to #SaveOurSigns but aren't sure where to start? We've put together a list of #NationalParks we've received few or no images from. Check it out! www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

The administration-imposed deadline for #SaveOurSigns rapidly approaches. Help us finish strong and save as many #NationalParkService interpretive signage before September 17! www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

Public records requests toolkit From Marshall Project Staff Writer Alysia Santo Learn how to make a request as strategic and detailed as possible. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/18/j...

Documented is open for pitches!  Learn more about what kind of stories we're looking for:

Informative @SmithsonianMag article from our very own, Aurora Martinez! A groundbreaking initiative that is preserving Mayan languages for future generations. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mill...

What are journos to do about government attempts to reject reality? "Study it. Get used to seeing it. Try to develop usable languages for it. Describe and re-describe it when events offer that opportunity. (As against, 'We already did that story.')" www.stopthepresses.news/p/q-and-a-wi...

POC Zine Project's mission is to makes zines by POC (People of Color) easy to find, distribute and share ... an experiment in activism and community through materiality. issuu.com/poczineproject

@cunytv.bsky.social received 21 nominations for the 2025 New York Emmy Awards, covering 10 shows and two films that were featured as part of the station’s film forum, “CUNY TV Presents.” Congratulations to the team! 🥳

To counter disinformation, we help students tabulate online datasets to support their reporting. As the ground of federal datasets becomes uncertain, check out @datarescueproject.org, a clearinghouse for preserving at-risk public information, integrating multiple data rescue initiatives.

Today marks 60 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, outlawing practices that block marginalized groups from voting. BNV teamed up with Associated Press and the Amsterdam News to measure progress. bit.ly/VRAat60 #VRA

If you're teaching this fall @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social you might want to check out Visible Pedagogy, a platform for discussions of teaching authored by people in the CUNY community. Here's the link:

Coming up tomorrow! 🥳 There's still time to RSVP at beta.nyc/e250806-rsvp

11 more public libraries open Sundays starting 9/7. Brooklyn: Bay Ridge, Bedford NYPL: Mott Haven, Baychester, Kingsbridge, Harlem, St. George Queens: Glen Oaks, Hunters Point, Jackson Heights, Rochdale Village gothamist.com/news/11-more...

Stay hydrated and read poetry. " a pianist leans over the keyboard, about to detonate the silence— aroma of pears scattered in the grass— you followed the thread of poetry out of a maze into sunlight— " www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Libraries grow, shrink, and change, but they always want you to have access to information. ‪@kqednews.kqed.org‬ looks at what it means to be the internet archive, what it means to be a federal depository library, and how the context for both is shifting. www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

Under President Trump’s deportation plan, asylum seekers pursuing legal avenues to immigration routinely face arrest. Associate Professor Eileen Markey (Journalism and Media Studies) investigates their unlawful detention in @thenation.com. www.lehman.edu/news/2025/Ei...

tracreports.org and deportationdata.org are both great projects that collect information about federal immigration "enforcement" through Freedom of Information requests and make it publicly available.

If you're a journalist who has experienced an arrest, assault or other aggression, @pressfreedomtracker.us can document your experience anonymously. Contact our senior reporter, @stephaniesugars.bsky.social, through Signal at ssugars.01

It's a HOT one today folks; there are both heat and air quality advisories out for the City through tomorrow. We recommend staying inside, staying hydrated, and perusing our many digitized collections from the comfort of somewhere air conditioned!

August is full of #journalism training opportunities 🏋️‍♀️ Thanks again for sharing your insights with Sunlight's growing community, @andreacaroleball.bsky.social ! #localjournalism #localmedia #investigativejournalism sunlightresearch.net/so/2cPXFEvxj...

If you're looking for a light summer read, check out past issues of our newsletter, the Research Slice for media recommendations, pizza reviews, and researcher spotlights. researchguides.journalism.cuny.edu/CENTER#s-lg-...

Some NYC RCV 2025 mayoral primary map updates from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. We've published our interactive map of round-by-round (non-batch-eliminated) vote patterns at www.urbanresearchmaps.org/nycrcv2025/ For each election district we display a vote transfer diagram for all candidates. (🧵)

Many federal lawsuits in the news! We provide access to PACER, the system of record for court documents, for the J-school community. Even without PACER, you can find newsy complaints in RECAP.

"This story was produced by The 19th and is republished under a Creative Commons license." Neat! www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/21/c...

Miss our Investigating Deaths in Custody workshop with @themarshallproject.org @azluminaria.org and the Ocala Gazette? The full recording is now online 🎥 This training examined how journalists can uncover what happens behind bars, particularly in systems with limited transparency or oversight🧵 1/3

NYC doesn’t need to imagine city-run grocery stores — they already exist. CUNY researchers say expanding these models could help close food access gaps across the five boroughs: ow.ly/miFJ50Wtn89

A new heat-mapping portal created by @huntercollege.bsky.social researchers seeks to help advocacy groups and decision makers understand the distribution of heat in New York City neighborhoods. ow.ly/3jl250Wtl0C

More zine making today. What news and information is so important that you would want to carry it in your pocket to share with your neighbors in real life?

In our latest Bellingcat Stage Talk we discussed how we monitored the immigration raids in LA using footage shared on social media. Listen to the episode with @koltai.bsky.social, @sergioolmos.bsky.social of @calmatters.org and Kevin Clancy of @evidentmedia.org here: rss.com/podcasts/bel...

comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/ has reports with data+context about NYC. From today's report on office-to-residential conversions: "Excluding 5-star buildings, occupancy in Manhattan offices dropped by 43M sq ft, 2019Q4 - 2025Q1. Conversions ... could absorb more than 1/3 of the loss."

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

In case you missed it, @documentedny.bsky.social compiled thousands of NY State and federal wage and hour records to create this wage theft monitor, where you search for businesses that have withheld wages from their employees by name, zip code, or industry. www.nywagetheft.com

Did you know that NY STATE open data has case-level deidentified hospital discharge data? This file is for 2023 and there are similar files going back to 2009. health.data.ny.gov/Health/Hospi...

Calling all open data fans! Come hang out with the Open Data Week and Data Through Design teams for our Summer Meetup. It’s a chance to keep the spirit of Open Data Week going strong. 🫶 🗓 Thursday, July 24 at Evil Twin Brewing NYC – DUMBO 🔗 RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e250724/

Did you know that the New York State Department of Education has school-level teacher and staff counts on it's website with information about degrees, experience, and race/ethnicity going back over 20 years? www.p12.nysed.gov/irs/pmf/

A good resource for freelancers. @atavist.com isn't on the list (yet?) but for reference, we pay at minimum $6,000 per story, plus royalties based on traffic. www.freelancingwithtim.com/p/freelance-...

Webinar chat this Thurs 7/10 at 12pm: Organizing your research for long-term stories and projects!

July is Disability Pride Month

Ph.D. candidate Emma R. Hasson, a 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Scientific American, wrote this article about a rover calculating the value of pi on the moon www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

If you want to learn where to find data about all things NYC from playground reconstruction to building permits to 311 calls, join @beta.nyc this Friday to learn about nyc open data. bsky.app/profile/beta...

Have you written something up to about 2000 words that you are proud of? Here is a little guide to help you turn it into a pocket-sized zine. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Want to explore NYC Open Data but not sure where to start? 📊 Join us & the NYC Open Data team for a free online workshop where you’ll learn how to search, filter & visualize public datasets—plus see how New Yorkers are using data! Friday, July 11 at 12 pm 🗓️ RSVP: www.nyc.gov/discoveropen... 💻