Data Journalism Bridging the Spreadsheet Divide: How Developer Sam Lovick Resurrected BERT to Bring Modern R to Microsoft Excel September 12, 2026 Evan Lee Salim LONDON — For data scientists working in corporate environments, a familiar professional friction exists: the technical team lives inside the flexible, powerful command-line environment of R, while the business stakeholders…
Press Freedom Vanishing in Cairo: The Enforced Disappearance of Sudanese Journalist Ataf Mohamed Mokhtar September 11, 2026 Evan Lee Salim WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued an urgent demand for the Egyptian government to immediately disclose the whereabouts and legal status of Ataf Mohamed Mokhtar,…
Media Ethics The Great Digital Pivot: A Retrospective on the 10 Defining Moments in Media and Tech (2014) September 10, 2026 Evan Lee Salim The year 2014 will be remembered by media historians as a "year of reckoning." It was a period defined by the painful, often messy transition from the traditional legacy newsroom…
Community Media Navigating the Algorithmic Tipping Point: Journalism, Ethics, and Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence September 9, 2026 Evan Lee Salim As newsrooms globally grapple with the rapid integration of artificial intelligence, journalists face a fundamental existential question: Should they adapt, resist, or throw their laptops into the sea? This query,…
Digital Security for Journalists The 153-Million Driver’s License Breach: AI-Accelerated Cyberattacks and the Crisis of Mandatory Digital Identity September 9, 2026 Evan Lee Salim By Investigative Staff Published: September 2026 Main Facts The cybersecurity landscape faces an unprecedented escalation in identity theft threats following the appearance of a massive database containing 153 million driver’s…
Artificial Intelligence in Media The Future of the Street Press: Resilience, Representation, and the Fight for Survival July 22, 2026 Evan Lee Salim For three decades, the sight of a Big Issue vendor standing on a bustling high street has been a fixture of the British urban landscape. It is a model that…
Digital Security for Journalists The Surveillance Dragnet: How Automated Plate Readers Are Redefining Policing and Privacy July 20, 2026 Evan Lee Salim In the modern era of law enforcement, the "eyes on the street" have shifted from human patrol officers to an omnipresent, interconnected network of automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras.…
Open Source Intelligence The Shadow Player: How a Padel Court in Dubai Exposed a Key Kinahan Cartel Lieutenant July 19, 2026 Evan Lee Salim This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here. Introduction: The Mirage of Wellness Every Friday evening, the brochure promises…
Data Journalism Visualizing the American Housing Crisis: Mapping Median Rent with R and the U.S. Census July 18, 2026 Evan Lee Salim The American housing market has long been a subject of intense economic debate, but rarely has the ability to visualize these disparities been so accessible. Through the U.S. Census Bureau’s…
