The Reporter’s Notebook

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The Reporter’s Notebook

Investigative Reporters: Will work for tips

If you have a tip that needs investigating, email us at tips@ctpublic.org or submit your tip through our secure form at https://www.ctpublic.org/news/tips.
The Reporter’s Notebook

What Connecticut’s first police use-of-force report tells us, and what’s still missing

Jim Haddadin

The report provides a high-level overview of more than 1,200 incidents documented by 60 law enforcement agencies. But its release was also noteworthy for the level of granular detail now available to the public.
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Reporter's Notebook: Celebrating a year of The Accountability Project

Walter Smith Randolph
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Reporter's Notebook: Using machine learning to boost accountability reporting on the local level

Jim Haddadin

Artificial intelligence techniques hold the promise to jumpstart investigative reporting, including at small news organizations.
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Reporter's Notebook: Youth crime and the voices and data not being heard in the debate

Jacqueline Rabe Thomas

This is the second edition of our new Reporter's Notebook series which is a part of The Accountability Project's newsletter. You can sign up, here.
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Reporter's Notebook: Taking a closer look at CT's Freedom of Information Commission

Walter Smith Randolph

This is the first edition of our new Reporter's Notebook series which is a part of The Accountability Project's new newsletter. You can sign up, here.