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Sophie Chou

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Sophie is a data journalist with a background in research and computer science.Before coming to PRI, she was the Google News Fellow at the Pew Research Center. There, she worked on a report to analyze the impact of media coverage of the Flint water crisis.Sophie did her Master’s degree at the MIT Media Lab, where she used social media analysis and computational social science to look at how news stories spread on Twitter.She has a passion for science and stories, in every combination.She left PRI in 2018.
Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display at the company’s headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An EPA penalty of $15 million for selling emissions defeat devices was decreased by $3 million under the Trump administration in December 2017.
Global Politics
Environmental prosecutions under Trump projected to be the lowest in two decades
Actress Meryl Streep (L) and the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo, at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.
Arts
Millions say #MeToo. But not everyone is heard equally.
(Left to right): Indira Marquez Robles, Dustin Henderson, Maria Geneva Reyes, Mwewa Mwange and Jasiel López (left to right) are recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Jobs
Nearly 40 percent of DACA recipients are high school or college students. Now their future is in limbo.
A group of men wearing camouflage clothing and FBI vests stand next to an armored car outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel in the pre-dawn light.
Conflict
There’s no evidence linking the Las Vegas attack to ISIS. So why did the group claim responsibility?
An excerpt from Jomny Sun's book, "everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too."
Books
How to speak like an aliebn — no, that’s not a typo
Man holding up ID card for medical school
Justice
DACA recipients won’t go back into the shadows quietly
An Iraqi man holds a picture of victims of the Karrada suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq on July 10, 2016, one week after the attack.
Conflict
More than 75 percent of terrorist attacks in 2016 took place in just 10 countries
Global Terrorism Database
Conflict
What does a day in terrorism look like?
Members of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign react on the presentation of a banner referring to the kidnapped Chibok school girls, during a sit-out in Abuja, Nigeria May 18, 2016,
Conflict
Terrorists launched fewer attacks in 2016. But they took twice as many hostages.
An encryption message is seen on the WhatsApp application on an iPhone.
Justice
It’s not just your color printer that could betray you. Here are 5 other ways you’re being tracked.
A girl writes a message in chalk on the pavement in central Manchester, Britain.
Conflict
Suicide attacks are rare in the West — but part of a growing global trend
Members of the Chinese community shout slogans during a protest at Place de la Bastille in Paris, France, March 30, 2017.
Conflict
Chinese-French millennials protest police shooting — and the ‘model minority’ myth
A woman waits to be registered prior to a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan.
Conflict
Drought doesn’t cause famine. People do.
Donald Trump gives his speech to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28.
Global Politics
Yes, Trump did sound ‘presidential.’ Here’s the science that shows why.
A poll posted on USAPolitics.co, one of the fake news sites started by teenagers in Veles, Macedonia.
Media
Macedonia is infamous for fake news. This woman is trying to combat it with real journalism.
Niki Rahmati, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Iran, is greeted by immigration attorney Susan Church (R) at Logan Airport in Boston, MA.
Conflict
The number of international students coming to the US has steadily risen. Will Trump reverse the trend?
President Donald Trump delivers his speech at the inauguration ceremonies as the 45th president of the United States.
Global Politics
Trump just delivered the most ‘America’-filled inaugural speech of all time
Barbie dolls are seen in a window of a toy store.
Culture
Barbie typewriter toys had a secret ability to encrypt messages — but they didn’t think girls would care