LevelUp
How to Legally Scrape EU Data for Investigations
Data collection laws are much trickier to navigate in Europe than in the U.S.
Sisi Wei
Editor-in-Chief
Sisi Wei is the editor-in-chief at The Markup.
Before joining The Markup, she was co-executive director of OpenNews, where she envisioned and executed transformative initiatives for journalism. As part of her work, Sisi founded the DEI Coalition, a journalism community dedicated to sharing knowledge and taking concrete action in service of a more anti-racist, equitable, and just journalism industry.
She was assistant managing editor at ProPublica from 2018 to 2020, where she oversaw three editorial teams focused on news apps, interactive storytelling, and visual investigations. She also managed large, interdisciplinary investigations across the newsroom, one of which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2020. Sisi worked at ProPublica for seven years, investigating abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust across a range of topics, including health care, higher education, government, and immigration.
In 2021, IWFM awarded Sisi the Gwen Ifill Award, which recognizes an outstanding woman journalist of color whose work carries forward Gwen’s legacy, especially by serving as a role model and mentor for young journalists. In 2019, Sisi and her fellow Journalists of Color Slack admin team won the ONA Community Award, which recognizes a person or small team in online journalism that has made outsized contributions to creating tools or work environments that allow digital journalists to do their best work.
Sisi also serves on the board of News Revenue Hub.
Machine Learning
AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating
Stanford study found AI detectors are biased against non-native English speakers
Still Loading
Magic Spreadsheets That Equip the Public
Use these tools and techniques to bring “receipts from streets” with little-to-no code
Pixel Hunt
Help Us Investigate Surveillance Marketing Using Facebook Data
Surveillance marketers are upping their game. Instead of relying on tracking pixels, companies are now sending tracking data directly to one another
Inside The Markup
Ese Olumhense, Tara García Mathewson, Monique O. Madan, and Soo Oh Join The Markup
We’re thrilled to welcome four journalists to our team of investigative reporters and editors
Inside The Markup
Michael Reilly Joining The Markup as Managing Editor
In April, science and technology journalist Michael Reilly will join The Markup
Hello World
Beyond “Grey’s Anatomy”: What We Learned About UNOS
A new system of liver sharing hurt some states with poorer, medically struggling residents. Persistence was the key to uncovering it
Organ Failure
Poorer States Suffer Under New Organ Donation Rules, As Livers Go to Waste
Life-saving liver transplants have plummeted in some Southern and Midwestern states with higher death rates from liver disease, while New York and California have made big gains
Show Your WorkOrgan Failure
How We Investigated UNOS’s Liver Allocation Policy
We found that new requirements led to plummeting transplants in some poorer states while New York and California saw big gains
Hello World
A Racially Biased Scoring System Helps Pick Who Receives Housing in L.A.
And it’s probably happening in your community too
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