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Revealing How Dentists Profit By Abusing Children

In ‘Drilling for Dollars,’ a local TV reporter presented shocking visual and audio testimony about a situation in which children were being needlessly treated and harmed because of corporate greed.

The New Front Page: The Digital Revolution

A former newspaper editor figures out how to fund serious digital journalism with an annual budget less than what newsrooms sometimes spent on one investigative project.

Presidential Dogs

President Warren G. Harding being photographed in front of the White House with his dog, Laddie. 1922. Photo courtesy of the National Photo Company/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.“Sasha…

Coming to a Political Beat Near You: Policy Wars Over Global Warming

As intense partisan politics begin to infuse the climate change story, what do journalists and journalism students need to know?

An ‘Open Notebook’ Project About Climate Change

RELATED WEB LINKExplore Yulsman’s open notebook project »RELATED ARTICLE“Coming to a Political Beat Near You: Policy Wars Over Global Warming”– Tom YulsmanWhen Tom Yulsman set out to write this article,…

Spring 2009: Words & Reflections Introduction

News Photography in Afghanistan, Climate Change and Politics, and Economic Calamity and Coverage

Investigating What Harms People—As an Independent Reporter

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter writes about ‘hurdles to obtain meager funding or to overcome editors’ reluctance to support the stories’—and offers suggestions.

Medical and Public Health Concerns: Off-Limits in the Russian Press

‘The problem facing public health reporters is not the police; it’s a medical system with little transparency and fear of unemployment.’

Probing Toxic Plastics at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

In “Chemical Fallout: A Journal Sentinel Watchdog Report,” Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger, reporters at this metro newspaper, explored in depth the evidence that long-term health effects may be caused…

Investigating Medical and Health Issues: Introduction

If data talked, oh, the stories they could tell. Today, enterprising reporters are “listening” to what data can tell them. By harnessing technology’s tools, they dig with increasing speed and…