Elisabeth Gawthrop

Hey thanks @emilyhopkins.bsky.social !

Abuse rates higher at nursing homes with many mentally ill residents — APM Research Lab Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychosis — condi...

NEW investigation by @egawthrop.bsky.social

1 in 5 nursing home residents is diagnosed with a serious mental illness, which few facilities are equipped to handle. Analysis shows this can lead to higher levels of abuse, putting both residents & staff at risk

www.apmresearchlab.org/abuse-rates-...

thanks!

The Marketplace Dozen Easy, regularly updated data about the U.S. economy, including many of the numbers we use in our reporting.

Just updated!

⛽Price of gas (one gallon, unleaded; $3.33, +3% monthly)

🍳Price of a dozen eggs ($5.12, -18% monthly)

More at The @marketplace.org Dozen:
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

And it's interesting because given that 60 day notice period, we wouldn't expect then any of the layoffs to really come through in the data yet... maybe probationary employees don't have that period?

Thanks for this! We do note but at the very bottom: "Employees on paid leave or receiving ongoing severance pay are counted as employed in the establishment survey."

Yes, we expect it to increase as well. For the 60 day notice period - are you referring to payroll? (+are they getting paid?)

The DC metro area has been hit disproportionally by the fed worker cuts - they've gotten a third of the cuts but only employ roughly a tenth of the federal workforce. (That's as of mid-February - the latest data available at city/state level).

Look up the losses (or gains) in your city 👇

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...

NEW: We ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly. (w/ @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @towcenter.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social) www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

It was great to have @apmresearchlab.org staff together for the nation's leading data journalism conference, #NICAR25!!

cc: @ire-nicar.bsky.social, @alyclary.bsky.social, @egawthrop.bsky.social

Titans Talk: A fireside chat with two of IRE’s founders - Investigative Reporters & Editors Hear from two of IRE’s original founders, Len Downie Jr. and Ed DeLaney, talk about our beginnings and their views of investigative journalism today and tomorrow. March 25 at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

TIL that Indy's own Ed Delaney helped create Investigative Reporters and Editors. For non-journos, it's the main trade organization for investigative journalists (and so much more than that).

www.ire.org/event/titans...

Twelve students from the Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University stand with faculty and staff at the 2025 NICAR conference.

The Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University and The Media School are well represented at #NICAR25. @ire-nicar.bsky.social, @kathleenmjohnston.bsky.social, @egawthrop.bsky.social

Behind the data: A look at Minnesota counties that profited from tax forfeited properties The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that counties can no longer profit from the sale of tax-forfeited properties. We analyzed data from the state’s most populous counties and found local governme...

And a deeper dive on the data from @alyclary.bsky.social: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/1...

Minnesota counties stand to lose millions after Supreme Court ruling In Minnesota, tax-forfeited properties generate millions of dollars that local governments use to run their operations, according to an analysis of public records by MPR News, APM Reports and the APM ...

Here's the story @alyclary.bsky.social worked on with @mprnews.org @kirstimarohn.bsky.social @apmreports.org: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/1...

5. When frustrated, remind yourself there is value in making data accessible to the public.

4. If you're cobbling data together, figure out a template early. If one dataset is particularly helpful, use that to shape the database's structure.

3. Try to look at your data with fresh eyes when your at the analysis and writing stage.

2. If you can use a coding language to clean and create the database, do it. Scripts will allow you to adjust and iterate.

Some great advice from my @apmresearchlab.org colleague @alyclary.bsky.social at #NICAR25:

1. When you’re putting together a database, YOU get to determine its parameters. If something is giving you a headache, talk to an editor about whether it’s necessary...

I remember some changes throughout the conference in the past but can’t remember how many times it tends to happen. But I do usually double check the schedule in the app before I head to a room/session just in case. Maybe someone at @ire-nicar.bsky.social could give more of a sense of frequency.

Amazing thanks!

This is sweet!! 😍 One question - does it pull the latest version of the schedule with any regularity? Sometimes there are some changes so just wondering if it will capture those.

➕ This year I'm also a visiting journalist-in-residence at IU Media School, teaching #datajournalism.

👋 I'm Elisabeth Gawthrop, a data journalist with American Public Media @apmresearchlab.org. I use data analysis + visuals to find/tell/complement/edit news stories. I've done a lot of coverage related to public and mental health lately, but also climate, environment, economics, policy, and more.