Preserving Public Data: Local Initiatives in Focus

Cheryl Phillips is Hearst Professional in Residence at Stanford University’s journalism program, and founder of Big Local News, which empowers journalists with data – and has twice been on Pulitzer prize winning news teams. Now she has devoted herself to empowering journalists with access to the data they need to tell great stories.

She joins Alberto, Scott and Simon to discuss the state of public data in the US in 2025, and what her team is doing about it.

⁠⁠⁠The⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠music this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠ made with⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠TwoTone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, represents the Dow Jones Industrial Index in the week before we recorded this podcast. See if you can guess what happens to it at the end. 

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Key links from this episode:

• New York Times: “How Tariffs Work”

• Reuters: “Tariffs don’t all act the same”

• Washington Post: “Trump’s reversal actually increased tariff rates”. This one also used data from the Budget Lab at Yale University

• Data Rescue Project

• Data.gov Archive