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The data journalism group has shared staff updates, including new hires for the Election Analytics and Weather teams.

The following excerpt was sent out from The New York Times’ Charo Henríquez, Keith Dixon and Eric Athas: Beena Raghavendran has been promoted to senior…

The Newsroom Development and Support team has announced the promotion of two of its team members: Beena Raghavendran and Jin Kim.

A case study of how Khan Academy changed how they worked — and what newsrooms can learn from how they tested new ideas, tackled challenges, and found success.

Food allergies have seemed like a moving target over the past decade or so.  For years, the FDA has had a law requiring that foods containing any of eight major allergens contain a label to that effect. But there aren’t only eight allergens, and last week, President Joe Biden signed into law an act to add a ninth to this list: sesame. That initial food allergen law, passed in 2004, noted that roughly 90 percent of allergies were caused by eight foods: tree nuts, peanuts, shellfish, fish, whe...