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Using Multimedia to Tell an Investigative Story About Innocence

‘Two departments within our newspaper—editorial and new media—had to work closely together to construct the project.’

Defining an Online Mission: Local Investigative Reporting

At the nonprofit voiceofsandiego.org, ‘From our first day our job has been to fill the gaps between what people want from their local media and what they have.’

An Investigative Reporting Partnership: A Serendipitous Collaboration

‘At Northeastern University in Boston, where I joined the faculty in 2007, students in my investigative reporting seminars have produced 11 Page One stories for The Boston Globe in just…

A Water Trail of Antibiotics in India

Margie Mason, an AP reporter then based in Hanoi, Vietnam and now a Nieman Global Health Fellow, contributed to the PharmaWater story with reporting about the large amount of antibiotics being…

Choosing Risk In a Volatile Economic Environment

A journalist concludes, ‘A timid reaction assumes forgoing the opportunity to innovate at this exciting juncture of history.’

Investigating the Pharmaceutical Industry on a Blog

‘… evidence itself often emerged as the centerpiece, which has a strong impact on the audience when they see for themselves the incriminating paper trail.’

A Small Newspaper Tackles a Big Investigative Project

The persistence of two reporters pays off in revealing how local government failed residents who worried about connections between corporate behavior and the high incidence of brain cancer.

The Web: Fertile Ground for Investigative Projects

‘Digital journalism could not be the sole domain of breaking news and blogging, and it had to be more than the repository of electronic reprints.’

Toppling the ‘Big Three’—Medical Care, Behavior and Genes

‘Unnatural Causes’ mixes reporting of research rarely featured in traditional news coverage with visual storytelling in the hope of sparking a health equity movement.

Digging Through Data and Discovering a Profitable Handshake

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team set out to determine why the state’s health care costs are so high and ended up revealing a hidden deal between powerful forces.