Newmark J School Research Center
@newmarkjresearch.bsky.social
The Research Center is the library at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. We provide resources, training, support, and tools for journalists.
www.journalism.cuny.edu/current-students/research-center
www.journalism.cuny.edu/current-students/research-center
We were delighted to meet up with wikipedians to publish information about historic Black and indigenous New Yorkers earlier this month! Becoming a wikipedia editor is a great way connect with people and information. #libraries
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November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We were delighted to meet up with wikipedians to publish information about historic Black and indigenous New Yorkers earlier this month! Becoming a wikipedia editor is a great way connect with people and information. #libraries
bsky.app/profile/city...
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Newsrooms have been talking about the obligations to disclose AI usage to readers...
"Far less debated is the view that AI usage should be disclosed internally in newsrooms..."
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"Far less debated is the view that AI usage should be disclosed internally in newsrooms..."
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Nieman Lab (@niemanlab.org)
Suncoast Searchlight's reporters told their board their editor-in-chief was secretly using AI tools and adding hallucinated quotes to drafts. The next day, one of those reporters was fired.…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Newsrooms have been talking about the obligations to disclose AI usage to readers...
"Far less debated is the view that AI usage should be disclosed internally in newsrooms..."
bsky.app/profile/niem...
"Far less debated is the view that AI usage should be disclosed internally in newsrooms..."
bsky.app/profile/niem...
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On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Archives is pleased to announce that the vast majority of the documents in our LGBTQ Collection are now digitized and available to view on our website!
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Archives is pleased to announce that the vast majority of the documents in our LGBTQ Collection are now digitized and available to view on our website!
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You guys, the Museum of the Moving Image is showing HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A on Sunday with Barbara Kopple in person
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movingimage.org/event/harlan...
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Harlan County U.S.A. with Barbara Kopple in person – Museum of the Moving Image
Barbara Kopple’s epochal, Oscar-winning documentary charting a Kentucky coal miners’ strike is among the great American films of the 1970s, a sensitive yet uncompromising look at the struggles and tri...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
You guys, the Museum of the Moving Image is showing HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A on Sunday with Barbara Kopple in person
!!
movingimage.org/event/harlan...
!!
movingimage.org/event/harlan...
You’re invited to the Hispanic and Latino Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.
November 24 at 10am - 1pm
Contribute to an online resource that 50 million people per day visit.
Uplift Hispanic and Latino culture and knowledge on Wikipedia.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 24 at 10am - 1pm
Contribute to an online resource that 50 million people per day visit.
Uplift Hispanic and Latino culture and knowledge on Wikipedia.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
You’re invited to the Hispanic and Latino Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.
November 24 at 10am - 1pm
Contribute to an online resource that 50 million people per day visit.
Uplift Hispanic and Latino culture and knowledge on Wikipedia.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 24 at 10am - 1pm
Contribute to an online resource that 50 million people per day visit.
Uplift Hispanic and Latino culture and knowledge on Wikipedia.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Brought to you by the @eff.org and MuckRock, the Foilies “honor” the institutions and individuals most determined to keep the public in the dark.
It’s that magical time of year again: Foilies submissions are open. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
It’s that magical time of year again: Foilies submissions are open. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
It’s time to name and shame: Let us know 2025’s worst transparency offenders with a Foilies nomination!
Brought to you by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock, the Foilies “honor” the institutions and individuals most determined to keep the public in the dark.
www.muckrock.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Brought to you by the @eff.org and MuckRock, the Foilies “honor” the institutions and individuals most determined to keep the public in the dark.
It’s that magical time of year again: Foilies submissions are open. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
It’s that magical time of year again: Foilies submissions are open. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
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Want NYC districts fast? Type your address into Boundaries Map and see City Council, Community District, precincts, school zones, sanitation, and more on one screen.
Perfect for outreach, permits, or just learning your neighborhood!
boundaries.beta.nyc
Perfect for outreach, permits, or just learning your neighborhood!
boundaries.beta.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Want NYC districts fast? Type your address into Boundaries Map and see City Council, Community District, precincts, school zones, sanitation, and more on one screen.
Perfect for outreach, permits, or just learning your neighborhood!
boundaries.beta.nyc
Perfect for outreach, permits, or just learning your neighborhood!
boundaries.beta.nyc
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The U.S. came closer to nuclear disaster in 1983 than many realize, but the State Department recently deleted key records about it — even though they'd been online without damaging national security for years.
What history will be erased next?
What history will be erased next?
Getting to the bottom of why the State Department quietly deleted 15 pages of history on the risk of inadvertent nuclear war.
Free link below.
Free link below.
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The U.S. came closer to nuclear disaster in 1983 than many realize, but the State Department recently deleted key records about it — even though they'd been online without damaging national security for years.
What history will be erased next?
What history will be erased next?
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Sunday was a celebration by and for the people of Jackson Heights as the 34th Avenue open street — the city's self-proclaimed "gold standard" of car-light spaces — was officially co-named "Paseo Park." buff.ly/juEKkja
Monday's Headlines: Permanent Paseo Edition - Streetsblog New York City
We journeyed to Jackson Heights to celebrate a milestone in the life of the 34th Avenue open street. Plus other news.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Sunday was a celebration by and for the people of Jackson Heights as the 34th Avenue open street — the city's self-proclaimed "gold standard" of car-light spaces — was officially co-named "Paseo Park." buff.ly/juEKkja
Thank you to NYC IBO for sharing tips for reading NYC budget documents at our event yesterday! Now we know that the budget has units of appropriation, but to check out the comptroller's ACFR for finer-grain budget & object codes.
Follow IBO on instagram!
www.instagram.com/nycibo/
Follow IBO on instagram!
www.instagram.com/nycibo/
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thank you to NYC IBO for sharing tips for reading NYC budget documents at our event yesterday! Now we know that the budget has units of appropriation, but to check out the comptroller's ACFR for finer-grain budget & object codes.
Follow IBO on instagram!
www.instagram.com/nycibo/
Follow IBO on instagram!
www.instagram.com/nycibo/
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Every dataset tells a story — about housing, parks, schools, and so much more. 📊
Come learn how to unlock these stories with NYC Open Data. Join a Discovering NYC Open Data class with the NYC Open Data team and start exploring your city!
📅 Friday, Nov 21 at 12 pm
🔗 RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e25112
Come learn how to unlock these stories with NYC Open Data. Join a Discovering NYC Open Data class with the NYC Open Data team and start exploring your city!
📅 Friday, Nov 21 at 12 pm
🔗 RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e25112
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Every dataset tells a story — about housing, parks, schools, and so much more. 📊
Come learn how to unlock these stories with NYC Open Data. Join a Discovering NYC Open Data class with the NYC Open Data team and start exploring your city!
📅 Friday, Nov 21 at 12 pm
🔗 RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e25112
Come learn how to unlock these stories with NYC Open Data. Join a Discovering NYC Open Data class with the NYC Open Data team and start exploring your city!
📅 Friday, Nov 21 at 12 pm
🔗 RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e25112
Curious to know how many riders of the M104 get their rides subsidized already? You can look it up here.
~600,000 rides on the M104 were subsidized in 2024 for seniors/people with disabilities. (About 30% of rides)
data.ny.gov/Transportati...
~600,000 rides on the M104 were subsidized in 2024 for seniors/people with disabilities. (About 30% of rides)
data.ny.gov/Transportati...
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Curious to know how many riders of the M104 get their rides subsidized already? You can look it up here.
~600,000 rides on the M104 were subsidized in 2024 for seniors/people with disabilities. (About 30% of rides)
data.ny.gov/Transportati...
~600,000 rides on the M104 were subsidized in 2024 for seniors/people with disabilities. (About 30% of rides)
data.ny.gov/Transportati...
Come check out Johanna Fernandez's amazing book on the Young Lords, available now at the Research Center!
#OtD 10 Nov 1970 Puerto Rican radicals from the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Over 600 people, including health workers, joined them to publicise the flagrant disregard for human life in NYC hospitals stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8235...
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Come check out Johanna Fernandez's amazing book on the Young Lords, available now at the Research Center!
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Great interview by Dan Krauth / Eyewitness News NY with @jomoko.bsky.social about the NYC mayoral election returns abc7ny.com/post/nyc-ele...
See how New York City voted in the mayoral race
Experts say Zohran Mamdani picked up some new support in areas that were skewing for President Donald Trump last year.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Great interview by Dan Krauth / Eyewitness News NY with @jomoko.bsky.social about the NYC mayoral election returns abc7ny.com/post/nyc-ele...
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It really is the best election map. Thank you, Center for Urban Research @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It really is the best election map. Thank you, Center for Urban Research @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
Read print news in our newsroom!
Compare coverage:
NYT: NY has always been, in its own imagination and the country's, a city of self-regarding and often contradictory superlatives--the biggest, brightest, richest, harshest, give-us-your-tired-est, little-too-wired-est ...
NYDN: EPIC VOTING SURGE
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NYT: NY has always been, in its own imagination and the country's, a city of self-regarding and often contradictory superlatives--the biggest, brightest, richest, harshest, give-us-your-tired-est, little-too-wired-est ...
NYDN: EPIC VOTING SURGE
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Read print news in our newsroom!
Compare coverage:
NYT: NY has always been, in its own imagination and the country's, a city of self-regarding and often contradictory superlatives--the biggest, brightest, richest, harshest, give-us-your-tired-est, little-too-wired-est ...
NYDN: EPIC VOTING SURGE
Compare coverage:
NYT: NY has always been, in its own imagination and the country's, a city of self-regarding and often contradictory superlatives--the biggest, brightest, richest, harshest, give-us-your-tired-est, little-too-wired-est ...
NYDN: EPIC VOTING SURGE
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NYC’s public-interest tech scene is growing—come join us! Catch a screening of Tech for Us at City Tech, then stay for a conversation on real pathways into mission-driven tech.
📆 Wednesday, November 5 at 5 pm
📍 The Theater at City Tech, 275 Jay Street, Brooklyn
🎟️ www.beta.nyc/event/tech-f...
📆 Wednesday, November 5 at 5 pm
📍 The Theater at City Tech, 275 Jay Street, Brooklyn
🎟️ www.beta.nyc/event/tech-f...
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
NYC’s public-interest tech scene is growing—come join us! Catch a screening of Tech for Us at City Tech, then stay for a conversation on real pathways into mission-driven tech.
📆 Wednesday, November 5 at 5 pm
📍 The Theater at City Tech, 275 Jay Street, Brooklyn
🎟️ www.beta.nyc/event/tech-f...
📆 Wednesday, November 5 at 5 pm
📍 The Theater at City Tech, 275 Jay Street, Brooklyn
🎟️ www.beta.nyc/event/tech-f...
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🌍 This Friday! Join Sunlight Research Center + Anna Massoglia for a workshop on tracking global business + influence.
🕐 Oct 31, 12–1 PM ET
Follow the money across borders + uncover who really controls companies.
#InvestigativeJournalism #Transparency
🕐 Oct 31, 12–1 PM ET
Follow the money across borders + uncover who really controls companies.
#InvestigativeJournalism #Transparency
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🌍 This Friday! Join Sunlight Research Center + Anna Massoglia for a workshop on tracking global business + influence.
🕐 Oct 31, 12–1 PM ET
Follow the money across borders + uncover who really controls companies.
#InvestigativeJournalism #Transparency
🕐 Oct 31, 12–1 PM ET
Follow the money across borders + uncover who really controls companies.
#InvestigativeJournalism #Transparency
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And hey, go follow @datarescueproject.org while you're at it!!
⛑️ Register for the Data Rescue Hackthon on November 13 at 1pm ET/ 10am PT on Zoom. Hosted by RDAP, attendees of all skill levels are invited to join in capturing, describing, uploading, and preserving at-risk federal data, contributing to the Data Rescue Project. 🛟
rdapassociation.org/event-6407691
rdapassociation.org/event-6407691
Research Data Access and Preservation Association - Data Rescue Project Hackathon
rdapassociation.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And hey, go follow @datarescueproject.org while you're at it!!
"42% of adults say they would trust an original news source less if an AI news summary contained errors, and audiences hold both AI providers and news brands responsible when they encounter errors. The reputational risk for media companies is great,"
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"42% of adults say they would trust an original news source less if an AI news summary contained errors, and audiences hold both AI providers and news brands responsible when they encounter errors. The reputational risk for media companies is great,"
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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“Yous talkin’ to me?” A massive new project is capturing how New Yorkers really sound — from “Mary” to “marry” and everything in between. Read more
Only in New York: Linguists Build a Database of Everyday Talk Across the Boroughs
Graduate Center scholars lead a project to document the accents and speech patterns unique to New York in an unprecedented record.
www.gc.cuny.edu
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“Yous talkin’ to me?” A massive new project is capturing how New Yorkers really sound — from “Mary” to “marry” and everything in between. Read more
Revealing investigative journalism about spying software being used to target journalists, politicians, defense contractors, and civilian victims of stalking.
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
www.lighthousereports.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Revealing investigative journalism about spying software being used to target journalists, politicians, defense contractors, and civilian victims of stalking.
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
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The Staten Island Advance is continuing its "Staten Island Traffic SOS," mapping out the crashes that killed 55 (!!) Islanders since 2021.
Few neighborhoods are spared tragedy, but most public officials on the Island worry about traffic, and not traffic violence.
www.silive.com/crime-safety...
Few neighborhoods are spared tragedy, but most public officials on the Island worry about traffic, and not traffic violence.
www.silive.com/crime-safety...
Every dot is a life lost: Mapping Staten Island’s fatal crashes since 2021
Since 2021, more than 55 lives have been lost on borough roads.
www.silive.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Staten Island Advance is continuing its "Staten Island Traffic SOS," mapping out the crashes that killed 55 (!!) Islanders since 2021.
Few neighborhoods are spared tragedy, but most public officials on the Island worry about traffic, and not traffic violence.
www.silive.com/crime-safety...
Few neighborhoods are spared tragedy, but most public officials on the Island worry about traffic, and not traffic violence.
www.silive.com/crime-safety...
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A generational shift is reshaping NYC politics.
A new survey by the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center—led by Keena Lipsitz and John Mollenkopf (@jomoko.bsky.social)—shows voters are demanding change and turning toward new leadership www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-yor...
A new survey by the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center—led by Keena Lipsitz and John Mollenkopf (@jomoko.bsky.social)—shows voters are demanding change and turning toward new leadership www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-yor...
New York City at the Crossroads: CUNY Graduate Center Survey Reports How Voters Are Deciding and Why
Findings from the CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for Urban Research suggest a generational shift and growing demand for change in city leadership.
www.gc.cuny.edu
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A generational shift is reshaping NYC politics.
A new survey by the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center—led by Keena Lipsitz and John Mollenkopf (@jomoko.bsky.social)—shows voters are demanding change and turning toward new leadership www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-yor...
A new survey by the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center—led by Keena Lipsitz and John Mollenkopf (@jomoko.bsky.social)—shows voters are demanding change and turning toward new leadership www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-yor...
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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.
July 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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.