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1/ Today we're launching Reveal Local Labs, our initiative to support local investigative reporting and community engagement.

Here are the details:

revealnews.org/blog/introduci…
2/ There’s one problem facing journalism today that looms larger than practically anything else: the decimation of local news.
3/ We wanted to help. But we’re a national news organization. We don’t have the local knowledge or resources to jump into communities across the country and do sustained, meaningful investigative reporting.
4/ We realized, however, that we had some skills we could contribute: collaboration, engagement and training.

We spend a lot of time working on all those things.
5/ So, over the next two years, we will be facilitating reporting collaborations in four cities across the country.
6/ We have three goals for Reveal Local Labs:
6/ Today, we're announcing our first city: San Jose.

And an incredible group of collaborators: @nbcbayarea, @telemundo48, @KQEDnews and @mercnews.
@nbcbayarea @Telemundo48 @KQEDnews @mercnews 7/ Here's how it will work:
@nbcbayarea @Telemundo48 @KQEDnews @mercnews 8/ We’ll also be hosting a Watchdog Workshop at San Jose State University, teaming up with @IRE_NICAR to train local journalists in investigative reporting on Sept. 29-30.
@nbcbayarea @Telemundo48 @KQEDnews @mercnews @IRE_NICAR 9/ Next up after that: New Orleans, to team up w/ @FOX8NOLA, @NOLAnews and @WWNO.
@nbcbayarea @Telemundo48 @KQEDnews @mercnews @IRE_NICAR @FOX8NOLA @NOLAnews @WWNO 10/ We'll then pick two more cities after that.

Hit up @ZivaBranstetter and @BobbyCalvan if you think we should come to your town and you're interested in working together.
@nbcbayarea @Telemundo48 @KQEDnews @mercnews @IRE_NICAR @FOX8NOLA @NOLAnews @WWNO @ZivaBranstetter @BobbyCalvan 11/ Thanks to the funders who are making this happen:
@nbcbayarea @Telemundo48 @KQEDnews @mercnews @IRE_NICAR @FOX8NOLA @NOLAnews @WWNO @ZivaBranstetter @BobbyCalvan 12/ If you want to follow along, sign up for our email updates:

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@nbcbayarea @Telemundo48 @KQEDnews @mercnews @IRE_NICAR @FOX8NOLA @NOLAnews @WWNO @ZivaBranstetter @BobbyCalvan 13/ And to read more about Reveal Local Labs, check out this story today from @NiemanLab:

niemanlab.org/2018/08/reveal…
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Our reporting suggests the real purpose is transporting seafood – and helping the world’s biggest fish processor. revealnews.org/article/trumps…
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1/ In this week’s episode: Officials from @NatlParkService heaped pressure on scientist @Dr_Caffrey to get her to remove all mentions of manmade climate change from a trailblazing scientific report.

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1/ Tech cos @Oracle, @PalantirTech & others gave some weak excuses for trying to keep their diversity numbers secret.

They said:

*Other companies would steal their workers.

*It would invade employee privacy.

*And the kicker: They'd face bad PR. revealnews.org/article/oracle…
2/ We challenged those excuses, suing the government. We won.

Now, government contractors can't hide their EEO-1 reports, which show their workforce broken down by race, gender and broad job category.
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