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Ben Conarck
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Covering government and criminal justice in Prince George's County for @bannerpgcounty @BaltimoreBanner • • former @MiamiHerald @jaxdotcom 🦉
Katılım Aralık 2014
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Prince George’s sheriff’s office PIO placed on leave following audit of her nonprofit thebanner.com/politics-power…
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New: The union representing Maryland correctional officers is calling out the corrections dept. over plans to have COs remotely watch prisoners from a control tower during rec time, calling the move reckless and dangerous. It comes amid an unprecedented spike in prison homicides.
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Bit of a delayed notice here, but I've joined The Banner's Prince George's County bureau, covering local government and criminal justice.
Give us a follow @bannerpgcounty. Our reporting is already having an impact: thebanner.com/politics-power…
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Prince George’s planning chair Darryl Barnes faces a slew of misconduct allegations thebanner.com/politics-power…
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Some personal news: I’m very excited to join @bannerpgcounty at the end of this month and to work with this dope team of reporters!
Zuri Berry@zuriberry
Today, we launched our new bureau covering Prince George's County. Follow our reporters @conarck @hauchu @esilverman11. And, of course, follow @bannerpgcounty for updates from all over the newsroom covering PG.
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The Banner is a Pulitzer finalist for series on Baltimore’s school bus failures buff.ly/4X3AHJ3
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New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out nytimes.com/2026/05/01/bus…
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Is there a mercy rule on MLB.tv refunds?
Bob Nightengale@BNightengale
The New York Mets suffer embarrassing 3-game sweep to the Colorado Rockies, a team that lost 119 games last year. The Mets scored 1 run in 18 innings in their doubleheader today, collecting 10 hits. They have now been shut out 5 times this year. They are 9-19.
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A woman spent months in Maryland jails because of unchecked facial recognition technology, @conarck reports thebanner.com/community/crim…
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A major US newspaper publisher is rolling out an AI-generated content farm that will use the bylines of real reporters without their consent.
Corbin Bolies@CorbinBolies
SCOOP: I got internal photos/videos of McClatchy's Claude-powered "content scaling agent" tool roiling its newsrooms. It's an AI product executives made because "we need more stories and we need more inventory," and journalists "defiant" about using it "will fall behind." 1/6
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BIG journalism industry news: The Banner's nonprofit parent company is buying the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
thebanner.com/economy/banner…
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@mollytaft I've never had it totally make someone up and have found a couple good sources using it. One bonus with Claude is it tends to look for people who have been quoted in other media sources
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@conarck i have tried that a few times and maybe i need to try it again! might just be a personal failing bc i get exasperated when it makes someone up and then i quit the effort in protest lol
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i am genuinely trying to learn to use AI for reporting but literally everything it has given me research wise has ended up being at least 50% wrong
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@mollytaft I don’t use AI for research at all. I do find it useful for unearthing potential sources I hadn’t thought of or heard of. There’s no downside: if it hallucinates a person who doesn’t exist or overstates their credentials, you move onto the next one.
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caveats are that i have a free version of chatgpt and am asking it to do some deep research. but like................i genuinely don't know what other journalists use it for? this is a truly good faith question
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Maryland Capitol Police officer who used Taser on 11-year-old boy faces negligence lawsuit: tinyurl.com/4se3ftx9 (via @BaltimoreBanner)
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BREAKING: The nearly six-month search for Tristan King came to an end Friday morning in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood, according to his family’s attorney and several people familiar with his case.
The United States Marshals Service found the 9-year-old boy at a run-down house on Filbert Street, not two miles from where he first went missing last September.
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NEW: When Maryland's congressional delegation visited ICE's overcrowded holding rooms in downtown Baltimore Monday, they found the place unexpectedly empty.
What happened to all the people being held there? We figured it out. Story for @BaltimoreBanner: thebanner.com/politics-power…
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Nine-year-old Tristan King has been missing since Sept. 24, longer than any other child his age in Maryland, through one of Baltimore’s coldest winters on record.
Missing posters show a blurry photo of a little boy with curly hair and deep-brown eyes. It says he was last seen wearing a white sweater and blue NBA pajama pants.
What it doesn’t say is that the past year of Tristan’s life was a procession of misery and mishaps, or that red tape and mistakes hampered the agencies responsible for finding him. buff.ly/PbuxluN
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Really important work from @conarck for @BaltimoreBanner about @BaltimorePolice's efforts to aid people with mental illness: thebanner.com/community/crim…
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