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Ted Alcorn

@TedAlcorn

Reporting on health + justice in @NYtimes, @NMinDepth, more. Teaching @columbiamsph & @NYUWagner. Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC.

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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. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/
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@MattieTK @nytimes You’re right, I have been kind of ignoring that issue and how it inflates things but maybe I’ll set out Podcasts entirely the way I have blogs.
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Matt 'TK' Taylor@MattieTK·
@TedAlcorn @nytimes I think you need to find a way to bin podcast transcripts from this, they will be massively pushing the number up
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Ted Alcorn@TedAlcorn·
Added cool new features to my @nytimes dashboard and still marveling at what you can learn by treating the paper of record as data. Check out obituaries: 👇
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NEW: Sergey Brin, his "MAGA Girlfriend" and a $57 million bid to kill the California billionaires tax. The inside story of how a Google cofounder and a gut-health influencer ghosted Matt Mahan and confronted Gavin Newsom — even if Newsom is "handsome." nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…
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The gender gap is real and stubborn. Despite a meaningful jump in 2018, and the great Overlooked No More series, the Times still publishes 2 obits of men for every 1 for a woman. @NYTAmy @jessicabennett
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Ted Alcorn@TedAlcorn·
The dashboard, Below the Fold, lives here for now: tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/ Let me know what you find in it, and other features I should add!
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Ted Alcorn@TedAlcorn·
Lastly, a work-in-progress: Corrections! Have only assembled last 9 years. Corrections per article vary by section, obituaries seem to be most common. Readers surely hold reporters accountable for getting those exactly right.
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Ted Alcorn@TedAlcorn·
@mattyglesias @JHWeissmann Then you ought to take into consideration the distinction between *having* plans and *running on* plans. ‘Plans are worthless but planning is everything’ and all that.
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Jennifer Mascia@JenniferMascia·
Trump's pardons are depriving the Crime Victims Fund of vital revenue. So far $113M in criminal fines has been forgiven that could have gone to shooting survivors and other victims of violent crime. My latest, w/@guardian: thetrace.org/2026/04/trump-…
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Ted Alcorn@TedAlcorn·
@dieworkwear Pigouvian tax on visual externalities could end poorly
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derek guy@dieworkwear·
mamdani’s team got in touch with me this morning to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with an extra 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.
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Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter·
@TedAlcorn @DouthatNYT @m_delamerced @BenjBrantley @KSchulten Yes, I saw evidence of articles getting longer, which to me made no sense given the imperative that writers have received to keep their articles shorter of late. Is it possible that some articles have gotten longer for some reason while others have gotten shorter?
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Ted Alcorn@TedAlcorn·
I added a feature to the 'Below The Fold' dashboard that creates a histogram of the range of article-lengths by each reporter. A lot of diversity in these — can you guess who is who? @DouthatNYT @m_delamerced @BenjBrantley @KSchulten
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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. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

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