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Afghanistan-ism: An Apt Metaphor for Foreign News Reporting

When independent judgment isn’t valued in the work journalists do overseas, the consequences for the nation can be devastating.

Adapting Investigative Reporting Skills to Policy Advocacy

‘My motto remains what it was when I reported on immigration: always hard-headed, never hard-hearted.’

MediaBugs: Correcting Errors and Conversing

The Knight News Challenge describes Rosenberg’s MediaBugs project:All journalists make mistakes, but they sometimes view admitting errors as a mark of shame. MediaBugs aims to change this climate, by promoting…

Watchdogging Public Corruption: A Newspaper Unearths Patterns of Costly Abuse

‘These are tumultuous and frightening times for newspapers, but this kind of reporting is what we do best.’

Rotting Meat, Security Documents, and Corporal Punishment

A local Chicago investigative reporter uses shoe-leather techniques and digital tools to uncover health and safety violations and be sure the news is widely spread.

Reporting Time and Resources Reveal a Hidden Source of Pollution

‘In many cases I had the budget to take chances and to not take no for an answer.’

Investigating Health and Safety Issues—As Scientists Would

The Chicago Tribune paid to have state-of-the-art testing done on products people eat and use and the results provided ‘clear reporting entry points into what are complex topics.’

Navigating Through the Biofuels Jungle

‘Given my years of energy reporting in California, I could spot several warning signs early on; others took additional reporting to uncover.’

21st Century Muckrakers: Introduction

Fatima Tlisova witnessed the injustice of villagers being poisoned by pollution from a nuclear lab nearby; she reported their story in a place where journalists risk their lives for sharing…

Going to Where the Fish Are Disappearing

Investigative reporters in Sweden set out to tell the story of why and how illegal fishing of cod was happening—and what it meant to consumers and businesses in their country.