Here’s what happened when a local reporter’s coverage was turned into a play February 12, 2016 By Deron Lee
Keeping reporters off the Senate floor: The latest restriction on press access in Missouri January 13, 2016 By Deron Lee
This Kansas City reporter was laid off twice in a year–but her work has just helped change a state law July 2, 2014 By Deron Lee A long-sought open-records victory is also a personal redemption story
How the First Amendment challenge to lethal-injection secrecy came together May 16, 2014 By Deron Lee Media organizations take the transparency fight to court in Missouri
All (abortion) politics is national January 31, 2014 By Deron Lee State policy on other issues is increasingly national, too. Here’s how local reporters can tell more complete stories
Reviewing Obamacare coverage: Week 2 October 11, 2013 By Trudy Lieberman Stewart-Sebelius is the splashy story, but there’s lot of interesting state and local coverage
Invasion of the Job Snatcher September 6, 2013 By Deron Lee As the Missouri media takes up arms against Rick Perry, some facts and context get lost in the fray
Four ways to make your big investigative report work better on the Web August 15, 2013 By Deron Lee Lots of newspaper journalism still feels hopelessly print-bound. It doesn’t have to be that way
‘Ag-gag’ reflex August 6, 2013 By Deron Lee State legislatures are pushing to stifle farm investigations, and some news associations are fighting back
Creeping Sharia legislation June 7, 2013 By Deron Lee Journalists often dismiss red-state Islamic law bans as a joke. But the story isn’t going away.
No, the scandals aren’t dragging down Obama’s ratings (yet) June 3, 2013 By Brendan Nyhan Some reporters seize on an outlier poll, but others get the story right
Just passing through May 10, 2013 By Deron Lee As major tax-cut plans zoom through Midwest statehouses, reporters scramble to stay ahead of the story