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Raquel Rutledge

@RaquelRutledge

Raquel Rutledge, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, is an investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

To Win Back Public Trust, Try Bipartisan Reporting and “Bias Editors”

It’s not news that a substantial segment of the American population despises the news media.We’ve heard allegations of elitism and bias since our industry’s infancy, though recently donned t-shirts advocating…
November 11, 2016

Raquel Rutledge, NF ’12, and her colleagues at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigated unfair property tax assessments—and worked to engage readers

Coefficients of dispersion. Chasing the sale. Maintenance years.Three things I knew almost nothing about when I got a tip from a software engineer that something was gravely wrong with the…
January 12, 2016

Our Communities Crave Watchdog Journalism

Photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Milwaukee Journal SentinelEarly one recent morning I fired off an e-mail to my managing editor, enraged that a story on the front page of our paper reported…
June 13, 2013

Public Investigator: Transforming Tips Into Stories

Two reporters use quick-hit, watchdog journalism to investigate local issues—and blog about what they do.
September 15, 2008