A free and independent press fills a vital role in a democracy. See our statement on The New York Times and our coverage of the president. nytco.com/press/a-statem…

we mapped tents in Rafah by applying machine learning to high resolution satellite imagery from Planet. we also show damaged buildings from analysis done by corey scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek. 🛰️

read here 🎁: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

a small thread with some model specifics 🧵

In a statement to Semafor, a New York Times spokesperson pushes back on this, saying 'the notion that any line of coverage has been ordered up or encouraged in retaliation for declining an interview, or any other reason, is outrageous and untrue.'

Visual evidence and internal communications show that before the strike on World Central Kitchen, multiple aid operations and local staff shelters in Gaza had come under Israeli fire — even after the I.D.F. was notified of the locations and logged them as humanitarian sites.

TSMC makes the world’s most advanced chips in Taiwan. Geopolitical shifts are pushing it to set up a new factory in the American desert.

It needs to bring its cutting-edge tech but also a notoriously harsh, military-style work culture to the U.S. 🧵
restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants as he attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva

1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted.

Maria Cheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings:
apnews.com/article/china-…

💫 NEW! Satellite imagery is widely used to show geographical details, but how can it be used for data journalism and how did we get to this point?

Join Rob Simmon for Nightingale, Data Visualization Society, on an in-depth exploration of how space becomes stories. gijn.org/stories/from-s…

So proud and excited to see Max Duncan & Xinyan Yu’s outstanding Made in Ethiopia premiering Tribeca. Details here on how to be there with us!

madeinethiopiafilm.com/copy-of-festiv…

China puts a lot of work into covering up repression in Xinjiang, wheeling out party-approved imams and diplomats from Iran, Russia and other allies to declare that Islam is flourishing. Here’s some on the ground reporting from Xinjiang this week 1/ economist.com/china/2024/04/…

I had a fascinating time meeting Chinese people in Thailand looking for lifestyles they feel are no longer available in China. Ft. Independent bookshops, artist communities, organic farms and Buddhist schools theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

#Exclusive : Chinese migrants are now the fastest-growing group at the US southern border. More deaths amid human trafficking surge.

Our report reveals victims, survivors, and backstory of Mexico-based human trafficking aided by local Chinese restaurant owners.
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两周前，八名中国走线人葬身墨西哥海岸。我和 Fu Beimeng📹📍🇲🇽 找到更多他们的身份信息。唯一的幸存者名叫黄忠锦，50岁，福建人。他的妻子和儿子据称都在海难中丧生。在这起事故的背后，是墨西哥塔帕丘拉盘根错节的人口贩运网络，我们还发现，其中有当地华人中餐馆老板的深度参与。

I profiled John Garnaut, the former China journalist-cum-Australian government official who contributed to a global China policy shift. Now, he is teaming up with Matt Pottinger & reinventing himself as a China whisperer for the private sector:

thewirechina.com/2024/04/07/the…

Love, love this piece from Peter Hessler for, among many other details, this envisioned career path for China hands 😂
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza.

An investigation by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם, in partnership with שיחה מקומית.

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

The The New York Times is searching for someone to join our team covering Ukraine. See the job posting here: nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/INYT/det…

“Every day is very hard — every day we feel that he is not here.”

I spoke with the parents of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for one whole year today, arrested while doing his job

nytimes.com/2024/03/29/bus…

The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.

For decades, they powered China’s rise. Now, China’s migrant workers are finding they can’t retire. Some fall through the cracks, forced out of a job due to age but not yet eligible for pensions.
Great work by my colleagues Wanqing Chen 陈婉晴 and Ken Moritsugu
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