Thanks to everyone who attended Tuesday’s The Deadline Club event — We had a packed house! And thanks to KFF Health News, THE CITY, The New York Times and Newsday for sending some of your best!

After Reuven Blau Bianca Pallaro exposed price gouging at Rikers commissary, NYC comptroller canceled the $33 million no-bid contract

Now Adams admin is overriding that decision, arguing the prices are 'fair and reasonable'

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Thrilled for honorable mention and congratulations to The Philadelphia Inquirer for the local reporting win!

Very cool to be at the Toner Prizes with April Xu & Bianca Pallaro & Richard Kim where THE CITY is a finalist for local political reporting. We are in great company! 🤞🏼

Mark your calendars! On March 26, in partnership with NYU Journalism, we'll meet in person @ 6pm to hear from top journalists & a media lawyer about how to uncover great stories with #FOIA laws. RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/digging-for-… #mediaevent #spj #deadlineclub #journalism

Too many amazing panels at IRE and NICAR's #NICAR24 right now!

Justin Hicks Kate Huangpu Daniel Schuman Bianca Pallaro Adam Yahya Rayes have a panel on data in govt & policy reporting

AND OpenSecrets.org's Brendan Glavin has a session on money in politics ahead of 2024 elections

Some recruiters are using generative AI to screen and rank job candidates. But a Bloomberg experiment found the best-known tool, OpenAI’s GPT, systematically produces biases that could disadvantage groups based on their names.

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Dubious campaign donations to @nycmayor from supermarket cashiers and untraceable 'thank you' dollars flowed through the New World Mall, raided by the FBI last week along with his Asian affairs chief's homes. What THE CITY & Documented dug up there: thecity.nyc/2024/03/06/fbi…

While doing this project of mapping our coverage using AI, I often asked myself how I was allowed to do such an enterprising, fun project - but THIS is my favorite part of working THE CITY - it's so open to new ideas and techniques in journalism all while serving New Yorkers!

BREAKING: FBI confirms it raided Queens’ New World Mall, the locus of multiple alleged straw donations to Mayor Eric Adams —supposedly from low wage workers. My colleagues Bianca Pallaro haidee chu April Xu
+ I spent weeks tracking down these “donors” last year:
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