The Commercial Appeal has put together a series written by Lawrence Buser exploring sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Memphis. The series, Church Secrets: Abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Memphis, is centered around the lawsuit John Doe vs. The Catholic Bishop for the Diocese of Memphis, et al, which the diocese settled for [...]

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Debora Halpern Wenger, of the University of Mississippi, has released her case study of The Commercial Appeal’s True Crime project that I worked on. If you’re interested to read more about why we did the project, what went into pursuing it and what we learned head on over to thecrimereport.org. You can find the case [...]

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UPDATE: This timeline has been updated, tweaked, and added to the CA’s Grizzlies coverage here. A recent history of the Memphis Grizzlies, timeline style, courtesy Michael Erskine, digital content editor at The Commercial Appeal. Memphis Grizzlies: 2009-2010 Season Highlights on Dipity.

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Deb Wenger, of the University of Mississippi School of Journalism, came up to the Commercial Appeal a few weeks ago to interview some of the folks involved in our True Crime project. Her case study will be out on thecrimereport.org in the next week or so, and will include my how-to guide to working with crime data. [...]

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I’m learning to hunt — so what started out as me toolin’ around on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency website turned into an excuse to make a neat map of public hunting land within striking distance of Memphis. Turns out there’s actually quite a bit of land out here: more than 370,000 acres of Wildlife [...]

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