Barbara K Iverson

Yana Kunichoff, Sam Stecklow, Darryl Holliday of City Bureau, and Robin Amer of the Chicago Reader win the March Sidney Award for revealing that Chicago’s police union has long served as the propaganda arm of the Chicago PD, often misleading the public in the wake of police-involved shootings. (via Chicago Reader and City Bureau win March…

Good read about young reporters on the campaign trails in 2016/ They learned to doubt conventional wisdom when their elders told them that an insurgent named Barack Hussein Obama could never win the White House. And they joined the ranks of professional journalists at a time when older reporters were being laid off in droves…

theoretically, we’re not far off from a future in which companies using facial-recognition technology could tag you in all those pictures. In fact, Facebook can recognize you in photos even if your face isn’t in them—using what it knows about your body type, your clothes, and your posture. (via How Many Photographs of You Are…

Education, tech saavy, urban v. rural are likely covariates in why this difference exists.  “These party differences were not found in other generations.” (via Among Snake People engaged in primaries, Dems more likely to learn about the election from social media | Pew Research Center)

(via The feds are ‘blown away’ by Smart City Challenge submissions – Roadshow)

Copyright Trolls don’t own “Happy Birthday” rights and must pay a fine. Warner/Chappell has settled a claim brought by many of the companies that had paid it for a license over the years and years that they were running their fraud. The music publisher will pay $14 million in penalties and fees. (via Copyright trolls who…