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After his newspaper story exposed the CIA’s reliance on a con man to determine if Iraq had WMD, a journalist dug deeper to unravel the mystery.

When a decade of conflict ended, ‘what many Nepali journalists did not anticipate was that the worst had yet to come.’

‘… it remains the job of journalists to do more than report the “stuff” that happens or bring to the public the “first rough draft of history.”’

The following words are reprinted from a Nieman Reports article written by Aung Zaw, editor of The Irrawaddy, a magazine about Burma and Southeast Asian affairs located in Chiang Mai,…

In the digital age, there is an appetite ‘for direct access to source documents.’

Want to add social science methods to your toolbox of investigative reporting skills? What follows are some ways to consider doing this:Read “Precision Journalism: A Reporter’s Introduction to Social Science…

For local TV news, a difficulty will come in figuring out how to make watchdog reporting stand out in a digital world.

In 2007, David Kaplan, who for many years was the chief investigative correspondent at U.S. News & World Report, studied the condition of global investigative journalism. Part of his mission…

‘The myth of journalists doggedly uncovering all the facts is both important—and dangerous.’

‘Some secrets deserve to be kept, and even secrets uncovered might not merit being put in public print, on television or on the Internet.’