TracingVRL is the COVID-inspired project tracking the misinformation going viral.
Most journalism is expressed in written or spoken words. Project TracingVRL publishes the pulse of information at bimonthly, sometimes weekly intervals, through curated news murals. These reports, comprised of sourced news clips, original written news segments and images, make updates easier to consume. The newsletter is more than an “aggregator.”
Why subscribe?
Rapid response to beat back disinformation is not sustainable. This news-outlet-of-one reports:
disinformation meme formation in real-time.
why people spread disinformation, and others launder misinformation, in the first place.
the reverberations of, and responses to, the most damaging pandemic in 100 years.
In the U.S., healthcare is a business. But even government-run healthcare needs to balance budgets using short- and long-term forecasts. Polluted data lakes make forecasts inaccurate.
This newsletter is built on deep media literacy research and computational lexical analysis.
TracingVRL brings back the pulse of news with negative space between issues. News in 2020 was a dulling, overwhelming dribble.
This newsletter, powered by proprietary news-sifting software I programmed, serves local and international news clips.
Team
A.J. Fish is a programmer-journalist with programming resume entries from ad tech, boutique financial services firms and public health, and journalism entries in freelancer as well as daily reporter capacities. She has survived relationships with manipulative people and developed, in collaboration with fellow travelers, an unwritten guidebook for navigating such personalities. She also navigated the U.S. health system and reached wellness after diagnosis with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and vertigo.
Fish took post-college news writing classes after earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics, achieved after first dabbling in forestry studies.
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