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Alyson Clary

@alyclary.bsky.social
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Freelance data reporter | data visualization | research | Ph.D. comp lit | (multitudes)🧶📚☕🎧♪✮ 🌈🖋 | she/her Open to tips and job opportunities

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APM Reports @apmreports.org · 07/08/2025
Explore the database of nursing homes in the story. For each one, see: • Percent of residents with a serious mental illness • Number of abuse-related citations • Nurse staffing rating www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
A map of the continental United States with colored dots representing nursing home locations.
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Craig Helmstetter @craigstetter.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, which few of the facilities are equipped to handle www.wglt.org/illinois/202... by @apmresearchlab.org's @egawthrop.bsky.social w/@apmreports.org via WGLT
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Abuse rates are higher at nursing homes with more mental illness
Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychosis — condi...
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Craig Helmstetter @craigstetter.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Check out this great, interactive map of skilled nursing facilities in the U.S. by @alyclary.bsky.social, as well as a table by @egawthrop.bsky.social that allows you to look up your local nursing home's staff rating www.apmresearchlab.org/abuse-rates-... @apmresearchlab.org / @apmreports.org
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 05/08/2025
Great reporting by Dan Kraker, and great mapping by our own @alyclary.bsky.social in the latest article in @mprnews.org's Troubled by the water series Across northern Minnesota’s pristine lake country, mercury contamination is growing www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 02/08/2025
A look at revisions to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report data in light of President Donald Trump’s firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It turns out that the revisions issued this month, while large, are not at all unprecedented.
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How abnormal are the revisions in this month’s jobs report?
A look at revisions to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report data in light of President Donald Trump’s firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It turns out that the revisions ...
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Craig Helmstetter @craigstetter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Wow! After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 25/07/2025
Hospitalization and mortality data from the Minnesota Department of Health do not signal a COVID-19 flare-up in the state so far this summer. U of MN wastewater measurements of the disease, however, are trending upward. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... by @craigstetter.bsky.social via @mprnews.org
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Little evidence of a COVID-19 ‘summer surge’ so far in Minnesota
National data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are showing increases in COVID-19 activity. But data from the state’s health department show continued low numbers of COVID-19 hospita...
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 27/06/2025
Maya Chari digs into the question: "How are Trump’s auto parts tariffs affecting the broader economy?" Today's new inflation numbers show consumer prices continuing to creep up. But not so much for "motor vehicles and parts" More: www.apmresearchlab.org/10x/dozens-o...
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How are Trump’s auto parts tariffs affecting the broader economy? — APM Research Lab
President Donald Trump made economic waves earlier this year when he announced a 25% tariff on imported automobiles and parts. Those announced tariffs have since been walked back. In fact, new inflati...
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 05/06/2025
Read the multiple-award-winning series here: www.mprnews.org/environment/...
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Trouble by the water: Minnesota's vanishing natural lakeshores
Are Minnesotans loving their lakes to death? Nearly half of wild shorelines that protect lakes from pollution are now gone.
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 05/06/2025
"Troubled by the water" won another award: Murrow regional radio news series! www.rtdna.org/2025-regiona... Congrats!!! To our own @alyclary.bsky.social & @egawthrop.bsky.social, with @mprnews.org's @kirstimarohn.bsky.social, @benjovland.bsky.social & @apmreports.org's @jenpenned.bsky.social
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Alyson Clary @alyclary.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Alyson Clary @alyclary.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I’m honored to have been part of such a great project with amazing colleagues! It just won a National Headliner Award!
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Alyson Clary @alyclary.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Craig Helmstetter @craigstetter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A map by my @apmresearchlab.org colleague @alyclary.bsky.social, , resourced by @pulitzercenter.bsky.social, for reporting by @mprnews.org, of data originally assembled by @gristnews.bsky.social See more: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 14/04/2025
Congrats!!! -To our own @alyclary.bsky.social & @egawthrop.bsky.social, with @mprnews.org's @kirstimarohn.bsky.social, @benjovland.bsky.social & @apmreports.org's @jenpenned.bsky.social for a 1st place MBJA Sevareid Award for “Troubled by the water” www.mprnews.org/environment/...
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Trouble by the water: Minnesota's vanishing natural lakeshores
Are Minnesotans loving their lakes to death? Nearly half of wild shorelines that protect lakes from pollution are now gone.
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Alyson Clary @alyclary.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It was great working with my Native News colleagues at @mprnews.org on this important story!
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 03/04/2025
New! via @current.org Our managing partner, @craigstetter.bsky.social , highlights some bipartisan findings about public media from a major national audience research study called Researching Unmet Needs current.org/2025/04/stud...
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Study finds conservatives and liberals want similar things from public media - Current
When asked about news attributes they value, people from opposite ends of the political spectrum aren’t that far apart, according to new audience research.
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Alyson Clary @alyclary.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Article out today in Current from @craigstetter.bsky.social of the APM Research Lab on a new study of Americans' unmet needs from media. "Audiences at both ends of the political spectrum say they are looking for programming related to history and local news." current.org/2025/04/stud...
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Study finds conservatives and liberals want similar things from public media - Current
When asked about news attributes they value, people from opposite ends of the political spectrum aren’t that far apart, according to new audience research.
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 17/03/2025
Our latest collaboration with @mprnews.org: A look at the growth in popularity of homeschooling in Minnesota www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... by @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social & @craigstetter.bsky.social, editor @paultosto.bsky.social
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Minnesota homeschooling leaped during COVID and counts continue to climb
After Minnesota schools shut their doors at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 10,000 families decided to educate their children at home. Five years later, the number of homeschoolers state...
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APM Research Lab @apmresearchlab.org · 06/03/2025
What to do when the data doesn’t exist? Sometimes you have to do the manual grunt work, but you end up being able to make data newly accessible to the public. — @alyclary.bsky.social on our partnership with @mprnews.org & @apmreports.org at #NICAR25.
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Craig Helmstetter @craigstetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Stellar #NICAR25 panel! 📈 @apmresearchlab.org’s @alyclary.bsky.social 📊 @caitmcglade.bsky.social AZ Republic 📈 @lighthousereports.com’s Charles Boutaud
Picture of three data journalism rock stars
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Elisabeth Gawthrop @egawthrop.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Some great advice from my @apmresearchlab.org colleague @alyclary.bsky.social at #NICAR25: 1. When you’re putting together a database, YOU get to determine its parameters. If something is giving you a headache, talk to an editor about whether it’s necessary...
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Elisabeth Gawthrop @egawthrop.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Here's the story @alyclary.bsky.social worked on with @mprnews.org @kirstimarohn.bsky.social @apmreports.org: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/1...
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Minnesota counties stand to lose millions after Supreme Court ruling
In Minnesota, tax-forfeited properties generate millions of dollars that local governments use to run their operations, according to an analysis of public records by MPR News, APM Reports and the APM ...
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Elisabeth Gawthrop @egawthrop.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
And a deeper dive on the data from @alyclary.bsky.social: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/1...
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Behind the data: A look at Minnesota counties that profited from tax forfeited properties
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that counties can no longer profit from the sale of tax-forfeited properties. We analyzed data from the state’s most populous counties and found local governme...
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Craig Helmstetter @craigstetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Hey #NICAR25, looking for a great 10:15 session today? My @apmresearchlab.org colleague @alyclary.bsky.social is on a great panel addressing what to do when the data don’t (yet) exist. Join me in Grand Portage Ballroom 1 (4th floor)!
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