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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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Anthony Ballas@tonyjballas·
RIP Sonny's Bridge (Faith Ringgold, 1986)
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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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Ben Conarck@conarck·
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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The Baltimore Banner@BaltimoreBanner·
The Banner is a Pulitzer finalist for series on Baltimore’s school bus failures buff.ly/4X3AHJ3
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Katie Robertson@katie_robertson·
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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Pamela Wood@pwoodreporter·
BIG journalism industry news: The Banner's nonprofit parent company is buying the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. thebanner.com/economy/banner…
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Ben Conarck@conarck·
@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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molly taft@mollytaft·
@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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molly taft@mollytaft·
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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Ben Conarck@conarck·
@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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molly taft@mollytaft·
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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The Baltimore Banner
The Baltimore Banner@BaltimoreBanner·
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. buff.ly/cZ5mLsW
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Maddi O'Neill@MaddiONeill·
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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The Baltimore Banner@BaltimoreBanner·
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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