Scott Klein
@kleinmatic.bsky.social
Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.
Eventually you will have detailed opinions about the cafeterias at the hospitals near your elderly parents.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Eventually you will have detailed opinions about the cafeterias at the hospitals near your elderly parents.
Nothing galvanizes New Yorkers quite like the rest of the country telling us what to do. open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...
Mayor Mamdani and the News Judgments That Provokes
Careful about religious bigotry and brandishing “socialism”
open.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nothing galvanizes New Yorkers quite like the rest of the country telling us what to do. open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...
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The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election
See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Are there dead experts who can identify inspect species? Buried lede.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
June 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Are there dead experts who can identify inspect species? Buried lede.
But I want to write in the Carroll Street bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Oldest retractable bridge in the U.S.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
@hellgatenyc.com has an incredibly fun game which visualized how ranked-choice voting works -- the 2025 New York City Bridge Primary. Forward to your NYC-voting friends!
Cast your vote!
Check out this election! Create your own ranked-choice voting elections at www.rankedvote.co
app.rankedvote.co
June 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
But I want to write in the Carroll Street bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Oldest retractable bridge in the U.S.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
Some ranked choice! Smh.
Time to play another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. Spoiler alert: It’s on Prime Video.
June 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Time to play another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. Spoiler alert: It’s on Prime Video.
Worth the (long) read!
We at the Tow Center have a major report out on AI in the newsroom - (absent any funding influence from the providers or users of the technology). ‘Journalism Zero’ is not too much of a stretch from the abstraction created by LLMs
summary from @niemanlab.org
www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/were...
summary from @niemanlab.org
www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/were...
“We’re the providers of information…but Google now wants to be the distributor”
A new 84-page report from Peter D. Brown and Klaudia Jaźwińska, researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, sketches out the state of play between big tech platforms a...
www.niemanlab.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Worth the (long) read!
This is not a thing.
May 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is not a thing.
Why does this article not link to the website that is its subject until the 22nd paragraph?
I am so happy and proud that more people are noticing the great work being done at @abovethelaw.com :)
The Website Where Lawyers Mock ‘Yellow-Bellied’ Firms Bowing to Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Why does this article not link to the website that is its subject until the 22nd paragraph?
Terrific project about the neighborhoods funding the NYC mayors’ race. I just wish it used the Times’ own “extremely detailed” neighborhood map instead of Streeteasy’s. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Terrific project about the neighborhoods funding the NYC mayors’ race. I just wish it used the Times’ own “extremely detailed” neighborhood map instead of Streeteasy’s. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Springtime in Prospect Park brings the rebirth of the cherry blossom, the yellow magnolia, and the Brooklyn Leica.
April 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Springtime in Prospect Park brings the rebirth of the cherry blossom, the yellow magnolia, and the Brooklyn Leica.
I lowkey want a local LLM rig just for the cool terminal apps. lambda.ai/blog/keeping...
April 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I lowkey want a local LLM rig just for the cool terminal apps. lambda.ai/blog/keeping...
Deep Cogito v1, the self-referential comedian.
April 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Deep Cogito v1, the self-referential comedian.
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There's a bunch of historical data sets in the {HistData} 📦
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
April 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
There's a bunch of historical data sets in the {HistData} 📦
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Sad to see. This is the second year in a row there’s bad news for data journalists during NICAR.
FiveThirtyEight shutting down completely seemed inevitable, but still. Sad news for people making data things.
March 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sad to see. This is the second year in a row there’s bad news for data journalists during NICAR.
Next thing you know we’re gonna get bright red alternate road jerseys or (sob) City Connect uniforms. What is this world coming to.
February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Next thing you know we’re gonna get bright red alternate road jerseys or (sob) City Connect uniforms. What is this world coming to.
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On the communication side of dataviz — what would you say, were the "hits" in the last few years? Pieces that went viral, found wide adoption, opened new audiences, were shared a lot.
February 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
On the communication side of dataviz — what would you say, were the "hits" in the last few years? Pieces that went viral, found wide adoption, opened new audiences, were shared a lot.
I almost always check my suitcase if I’m flying non-stop. The cognitive load of worrying about overhead space and having to put my backpack where my feet should be aren’t worth the negligible benefit, and my bag invariably beats me to baggage claim. YMMV.
February 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I almost always check my suitcase if I’m flying non-stop. The cognitive load of worrying about overhead space and having to put my backpack where my feet should be aren’t worth the negligible benefit, and my bag invariably beats me to baggage claim. YMMV.
Spent the weekend at a Quaker retreat center and ended up reading this book from its library on Lincoln’s attitudes toward slavery. I’m sure scholarship has evolved in the century since it was published but I learned a lot. archive.org/details/pres...
President Lincoln's attitude towards slavery and emancipation : with a review of events before and since the Civil War : Wilbur, Henry Watson, 1851-1914 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Intern...
Includes index
archive.org
February 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spent the weekend at a Quaker retreat center and ended up reading this book from its library on Lincoln’s attitudes toward slavery. I’m sure scholarship has evolved in the century since it was published but I learned a lot. archive.org/details/pres...
There were live bird markets in New York City?
Breaking News: New York State officials ordered the temporary closure of all live bird markets in New York City and nearby counties to curb the spread of bird flu.
New York Live Bird Markets Ordered to Close After Bird Flu Is Found
The order affects roughly 80 markets in New York City and in several nearby counties. Gov. Kathy Hochul described it as a “proactive” step to help curb the spread of bird flu.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There were live bird markets in New York City?