Tracy Cook

Editor interested in technology, economics, finance, and sports. Bylines in @AmPress, @DallasNews, @DenverPost & @PhillyInquirer. #MIZ 🏀

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

Revenue shift from ads to subscribers requires emphasis shift from page views to loyal relationships through substantive journalism. #JAWS17

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

A visual representation of excitement over time for today’s #ACES2022DataViz session. 📈
#ACESEMERGE #ACES2022

[College GameDay @CollegeGameDay]

.@dawnstaley on what today's College GameDay means to women's basketball:

"This is tremendous for women's basketball. ... I'm all for pushing the game forward and this right here is a part of it."

@GamecockWBB

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

A gold medal for #USABWNT for beating Japan in the finals and also one for Megan Rapinoe for her courtside interview about Sue Bird. Love the love, respect, admiration, and appreciation she shared for her fiancée. 😍 @mPinoe you about had me crying too.

[USA Basketball 3x3 @usab3x3]

🥇 GOLD IT IS 🥇

The U.S. Women take gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games!

🇺🇸 #USAB3x3 x #Tokyo2020 #3x3

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Kamala Harris became the first woman — and the first woman of color — sworn in as vice president.

The history-making moment is a milestone for Americans who have fought tirelessly to see faces that resemble their own in the government’s executive branch. https://t.co/8EBNWaNPar

[CBS News @CBSNews]

WATCH: Kamala Harris takes the oath of office to become vice president, sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor https://t.co/1LntlB7T7E

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

We love to see it:

https://t.co/VS0j1sKxz3

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

@KATabor Ideal WFH setup ✅

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

Me going out for a run, deciding it’s way too hot, then heading back inside

[ABC News @ABC]

RUNNING RHINO: A four-day-old southern white rhino calf sprinted around a yard at Monarto Safari Park in South Australia, joining mom Umgali back inside. https://t.co/24jBhugWew

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

@DeniseMalan @IRE_NICAR Congratulations, Denise!

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

Has anyone I know seen this show? I'd be interested to hear what you think (and how that compares with this @NewYorker piece): https://t.co/jLTnbFgCMn. #ShenYun

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

Just said “M-I-Z” to a complete stranger because he was wearing a Mizzou hat (usually I’m the one in Mizzou gear) and as Midwest Nice would have it, we chatted and I learned we lived in the same dorm (~residence hall~) 30 years apart.🐯

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

On this day in 2019:

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The NCAA says it will allow college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, a move that will transform the economics of college sports https://t.co/Cl7uzWvf2e

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

🚨 Internship Application Deadline: Friday, Nov. 1. 🚨

Highly recommend this internship program, especially working with @paul_o_donnell and the business reporting team. The @DallasNews team sincerely invests in this program.

Learn more: https://t.co/kLlwkI9wx8

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

.@codedByDan is a true king.

[Chipotle @ChipotleTweets]

Relationship status:

⚪️ single
⚪️ taken
🔘 waiting for the day a true king memorizes my Chipotle order

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

When reporting about "the 1%," consider providing more context about who specifically that is. Bill Emmons of @stlouisfed says often those "top 1%" stats aren't informative because they don’t tell you who those people are, and those people may change over time. #sabewatfred

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

.@stlouisfed also has a data tool that lets you build maps by state, county, census region, etc. It's called GeoFRED: https://t.co/Je8njbA05a #sabewatfred

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

Context matters: When reporting about trends and cycles, use seasonally adjusted data. Seesaw patterns are a sign that your data’s not seasonally adjusted. *Note: A lot of regional/local data is not seasonally adjusted. #sabewatfred

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

Data is not always permanent. An example is changing payroll employment. After Hurricane Harvey (late Aug. & early Sept. 2017), first-reported numbers showed a loss of 30,000 jobs. Later report showed a gain of 18,000. #sabewatfred

Data here: https://t.co/8sjdASwgI1

[Tracy Cook @tmcook23]

How can you use economic data to better your reporting? Follow along with #sabewatfred to learn more about FRED, @stlouisfed’s signature economic database. 📈📊