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investigations
‘47 percent’ story wins a Polk Award
Mother Jones earns a political reporting prize
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Mother Jones is one of the winners at this year's George Polk Awards, Long Island University announced Monday. Mother Jones... More
FT Style Undermines A Good Investigation
By Ryan Chittum Nov 21, 2011 at 03:09 PM
The Financial Times has a good investigation today into how hedge funds are stocking their boards with directors in the... More
SI/CBS College Football Investigation Lacks Context
Their stats on player arrests aren’t so eye-opening after all
By Ryan Chittum Mar 2, 2011 at 05:40 PM
Sports Illustrated and CBS News are out with a big investigation into crime in college football. They looked at the... More
The Seattle Times sinks a local polluter
Investigating the sketchy background of a capsized ship’s owner
By Ryan Chittum Jun 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Most business investigations focus on corporations and investors. And for good reason: They're the ones with the money and the... More
A Times Story Bodes Ill for the Washington Post
An investigation shows how Kaplan used predatory tactics to get students and government money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2010 at 03:32 PM
The for-profit college business just looks worse and worse, and a New York Times investigation this morning paints a disturbing... More
AP’s pension probe misses the broad view
Good reporting is undermined by a lack of context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM
The Associated Press has a tough three-part investigation out this week looking at corruption in an old Washington state pension... More
Digging for dark money
Guardian, CPI expose secretive climate-denial funding network
By Curtis Brainard Feb 19, 2013 at 03:20 PM
Just over a year ago, Peter Gleick, a scientist and climate-change activist, obtained a cache of internal documents from The... More
Excellent Reuters Probe Uncovers a CEO’s Billion-Dollar Loans
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2012 at 07:51 PM
Reuters has a fantastic piece of enterprise reporting on natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy, reporting on serious conflicts of interest... More
Fifty worst charities: a reporters’ resource
A Laurel to the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting for a report that other journalists can put to work
By Susannah Nesmith Jul 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM
An impressive investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting identified 50 charities around the... More
Golden Teeth Redux
A Dallas TV station investigates the state’s Medicaid shenanigans
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Byron Harris, the dogged investigative reporter for Dallas, Texas television station WFAA, has come up with two more installments in... More
How to use social media in investigations
ProPublica explains at Social Media Weekend
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Investigative reporting used to be a secretive business--think Woodward and Bernstein meeting anonymous sources in parking garages. But according to... More
InsideClimate out front
Investigation of Kalamazoo oil spill calamity led the pack
By Curtis Brainard Jul 26, 2012 at 03:23 PM
In early July, the media covered a long awaited report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which blamed the... More
Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part IV
Sac Bee catches nursing home lies
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that health care institutions are not always safe places. Since the Institute of... More
Reuters gets a scalp
Its fantastic reporting takes down Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon
By Ryan Chittum Jan 30, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters had already gotten results for its outstanding investigation into Chesapeake Energy and the conflicts of its swashbuckling CEO Aubrey... More
Rooting out bad science
Big scandals grab headlines, but journalists can do more to expose misconduct
By Declan Fahy May 23, 2013 at 04:17 PM
The extraordinary case of academic fraudster Diederick Stapel followed the typical narrative of a scientific scandal. A professor of social... More
The Times’s Extraordinary Wal-Mart Investigation
By Ryan Chittum Apr 23, 2012 at 06:38 PM
David Barstow's epic Wal-Mart investigation in the Sunday New York Times has already lopped $10 billion off the company's market... More
The WSJ Advances the Foreign-Exchange Gouging Story
By Ryan Chittum Aug 12, 2011 at 02:10 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a good investigation that advances its series of stories looking at how banks, and particularly... More
The corrupt City culture behind the Libor scandal
The Wall Street Journal’s excellent investigation digs up the dirt
By Ryan Chittum May 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
In the real word, big conspiracies are hard to maintain. People talk. Disagreements develop. Word tends to get out. But... More
What Do I Owe You?
Don’t ask Bank of America
By Ryan Chittum Apr 3, 2012 at 07:18 PM
When a bank sells bad debts to third-party collectors, the first order of business would seem to be to tell... More
When hospital profits clash with patient care: an investigation
The Times exposes questionable care at HCA hospitals
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM
This week The New York Times concluded a rare look at the inner workings of the country’s biggest for-profit hospital... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
