Ted Alcorn

Starting something new. Frequent words in @NYtimes, @NMinDepth. Teaching @columbiamsph & @NYUWagner. Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC.

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. https://t.co/CoE22qsBtb

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The Secretary of State commits himself to a zero-sum view of global affairs as a deadly cattle parasite once eradicated from not just the US but also Mexico and Central America under US leadership spreads closer to Texas.

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Saying the quiet part loud: the (typically) unspoken barrier for Anglo candidates in New Mexico.

[Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican]

Juan De Jesus Sanchez III, a former political director for U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, holds the lead in the Democratic primary for state land commissioner. https://t.co/iLuMaR0zn0

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Today a person can get drunk for 1/15th of what it cost in 1950 adjusting for inflation, points out @nytopinion.

Instead of addressing this, lawmakers have lowered alcohol taxes.

Any wonder why we have so much substance abuse in our society?

https://t.co/XHtLORtOMz

[Emily Gallagher @EmilyAssembly]

Allowing New Yorkers to create their own solar energy will bring down bills and emissions. It’ll expand the group of people who are personally invested in renewable energy.

This is a very popular bill with ConEd support. The Gov should sign it. https://t.co/JmnpM9thVK

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Would definitely make crime/safety reporting easier — but I worry about the implications when all public court records are ingested and made available frictionlessly to anyone by AI.

[Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble]

Wyden and Kennedy introduced a bill to modernize PACER

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Great read about the AI slop we are all being fed here. 🐷 @oliverwhang21

https://t.co/R86LwOPr9T

[Matthew B @boes_]

The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today (https://t.co/2SonuBrsvY)

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

@snigdhasur @kiranshaw Also excellent by @vauhinivara https://t.co/LkbNnhpAQ5

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Focused deterrence + a prosecutor providing accountability… “Collaboration,” per @ivanjbates.

(And of course other truly public health measures may be unsung contributors, too: https://t.co/V5oHSh1knv)

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

Baltimore has long bucked national homicide trends. But in recent years, it's followed the rest of the nation to historic lows. For months, I've been wondering: why?

Thanks to @TheFP for letting me do this deep dive:
https://t.co/rc284DKWUu

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Love the rebrand of this essential news operation.

[The City Reporter @THECITYNY]

THE CITY is now The City Reporter!

The thoughtful reporting you’ve come to expect from THE CITY is not changing. And we are still here, holding New York City’s powerful accountable and helping you navigate this crazy city we all love.

More here: https://t.co/NQDufprpge

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Does hot-spot policing cut crime? Yes.
Does @NYPDnews claim far more credit than it deserves? Absolutely.
Career NYPD @jjhall_77 shows how much decline in crime is 'regression to the mean'. Crucial work for public safety literacy in @VitalCityNYC.
https://t.co/VY6IkbcSfP

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

This story caught me off-guard: the death of the last Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly in @abqbiopark this spring.

US butterfly populations crashed 22% between 2000-20. Imagine a world without these little guys.

@CatrinEinhorn Gift link: https://t.co/M24BDmZgGX

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

@JasonColavito 🤷🏼‍♂️ suit yourself.

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

@BlueRibbonPAC Look at the theme tab, you can adjust all the thresholds and do your own searches

https://t.co/UNX9tggtET

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

With data from @nytimes API, I analyzed all national+local coverage since 2000—224K articles— to see which topics in each state get covered out of proportion to the rest of the country. A portrait of how the paper of record sees America, one state per tweet, alphabetical. 👇

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

@JasonColavito The fact that the New york Times concerns itself with ancient indigenous civilizations in Peru, but not ancient indigenous civilizations elsewhere in South America, is revealing.

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

That's all the Americas with sufficient coverage — and the end of the regional series.

Full methodology + dig deeper into the data yourself: https://t.co/yb2Aff6ml3

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Final thread: the Americas! (Couldn't leave out the rest of the Western hemisphere).

This is a map of the topics that get outsize coverage in each country, based on keywords in every @nytimes World article tagged here since 2000 (n≈16,000).

By country, alphabetical 👇

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

VENEZUELA — The Chávez-era seizures and what came after.