Top news of the week: 01.09.2020.
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Future Of News & Journalism
RT @alisonkilling: China's Baidu has blank spots in its mapping platform. We used those blank locations to look for the network of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang, where up to a million Muslim minorities have been detained. Here's how we did it. https://t.co/Icpm96Ccx0
OpenBlanked Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps
China's Baidu blanked out parts of its mapping platform. We used those locations to find a network of buildings bearing the hallmarks of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang. Here's how ...
RT @BuzzFeedNews: EXCLUSIVE: China has secretly built dozens of massive new internment camps since 2018 in a dramatic escalation of its campaign against Muslim minorities — even as it publicly claimed the detainees had all been set free. https://t.co/M8j48hnuvu
OpenNot Great with Scaachi Koul
China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn’t enough space to hold them. Then the government started building.
Here is my deep dive on how organizers, journalists and foundations collaborated to pass this first in the nation legislation around civic information and media in NJ: https://t.co/dLdVXvX2jn https://t.co/uZDUkak6pa
OpenPhilanthropy and the Future of Local News
How foundations, journalists, and community organizers in New Jersey passed the nation’s first civic information bill.
@ejaxon @newmarkjschool Here's the birth announcement:
https://t.co/W2WBTGl1vX
Here's some students' work:
https://t.co/CnHtaq7uJ1
The first third of my book was the inspiration (follow links at the bottom of each chapter):
https://t.co/Ugf6He3yNi
More where that came from.
OpenNew Relationships, Forms, and Models for News
These digital visionaries tell people like me that we just don’t understand them. They talk about the wonders of the interconnected world…