Unorthodox reporting of the C.I.A. torture report
The following are some interesting ways of getting readers to care about the C.I.A.’s torture report.
The Daily Dot turned the “horrific read” that was the C.I.A.’s torture report to into a bunch of memes.
The New Republic made a detailed infographic of how the new torture report “diverges sharply from the C.I.A.’s previous statements on the treatment of detainees.”
Over at Mic.com, Jared Keller ran the numbers from the report. Turns out “enhanced interrogation” appears 6.4 times more often than the word “torture.”
And Vice did an illustrated guide of the A-to-Z’s of torture.
Aleszu Bajak was the founding editor of Storybench. He is currently the director of data visualization at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was a senior data reporter on USA TODAY's data team, part of the newspaper's national investigative unit. He is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T., was a founding senior writer at Undark magazine and founding editor of Esquire Classic, a project resuscitating the magazine's archives. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, M.I.T. Technology Review and Nature.
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