With Snapchat now hosting 173 million active daily users, the app has become a major strategy for many news organizations hoping to connect with younger audiences. Snapchat Discover, which officially launched in January 2015, features dozens of news outlets that upload content daily. These include new players like Now This as well as traditional giants like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. The Post launched its Discover channel in February and its...

Alex Thompson’s ticket to the grandest show of 2016 came with a VIP pass to the inside of a jail cell. Thompson, a reporter for VICE News who covered last year’s presidential campaign, was arrested two months into the job on charges of trespassing. He’d walked into quite the anti-media crowd at a Trump event in Houston. Thompson’s dramatic entrance onto the political journalism scene was just as characteristic as the elaborate dramatics displayed by the Republican presidential...

This story originally appeared on Storybench: Tools, Tips and Takeaways on Digital Storytelling From Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. It’s about time to infuse feminism into data science and visualization. At least, that’s what Emerson data visualization and civic tech professor Catherine D’Ignazio says based on her research into what an intersectional feminist perspective on data could look like. “We’re in this moment when big data and visualization are being heralded as...

Located in one of the states hardest hit by the opioid crisis, Florida’s Palm Beach Post has covered the issue from drug deals in the streets to boardroom deals at Big Pharma. For their latest series, several reporters took a comprehensive look at one pharmaceutical company that earned major profits bribing doctors to prescribe their opioid product to the masses. The drug in question, Subsys, a sprayable form of fentanyl, is intended for cancer patients with pain so severe no other...

Delta Air Lines plans to start flying its new Airbus A350-900 jets between Seattle and Tokyo as of March 1, 2019. Delta currently uses Boeing 767-300 jets on the trans-Pacific route and flew Boeing 747s between the two cities before Delta retired its jumbo jet fleet. Delta Air Lines 747-400 pays final visit to Boeing factory in Everett Delta Air Lines is retiring its iconic 747s. Boeing and Delta employees enjoyed a farewell visit with the double-decker jumbo jet at Paine Field in...