Unspecific, unknown deaths rose 10 times more among Black, Hispanic and Indigenous people than among white Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis by MuckRock. The true toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on many communities of color is worse than previously known.

The five accused Fauxbom plotters moved on beyond their early notoriety, even as FBI documents trace an unfinished hunt for Orhan Gunduz’s killer among them. The Armenian and Turkish communities still grapple with complex legacies, including full recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the killings that brought the issue to the world’s attention.

Learn how to use GitHub Actions and Python to help build tools to make DocumentCloud even more powerful.

We are now accepting submissions for The Foilies 2023, the annual project to give tongue-in-cheek awards to the officials and institutions that behave badly (or ridiculously) when served with a request for public records.

Nearly three years into the city’s wastewater surveillance program, New York City has neither a local dashboard nor a clear strategy for how testing results are used.

In a first-of-its-kind analysis, we have detailed death certificate records in Chicago; California’s Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego; Minnesota; and New Mexico, allowing us to search for words associated with Long COVID. Here’s what we found.

In a new story with DataJournalism.com, reporters Dillon Bergin and Betsy Ladyzhets shared how MuckRock collaborates with both experts and other reporters to pursue major data journalism projects.

Luiz Toledo shares how the collaborative reporting project Data Fixers has used DocumentCloud’s new Bad Redactions and Import Documents capabilities to help make its reporting process easier.