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Pouring Meaning Into Numbers

In using EPA data, USA Today’s watchdog project empowered ‘parents to learn about the types and sources of chemicals that might be in the air near their child’s school.’
June 14, 2009

Mining the Coal Beat: Keeping Watch Over an ‘Outlaw’ Industry

Digging through records, creating new databases, and asking key questions leads a West Virginia reporter to important investigative stories about the coal industry.
June 14, 2009

When the Predictable Overtakes the Real News About Iran

‘What makes news in the West are Iran’s "menacing" actions in Iraq or words against Israel, with such stories told in a similar narrative, encased in little context and with…
June 12, 2009

Fortunate Son: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

‘… it was Thompson’s great good fortune to come of age, professionally speaking, at a point where his own proclivities and the broader Zeitgeist dovetailed to an almost absurd degree.’
June 11, 2009

No Man’s Land Inside an Iranian Police Station

When Iran held a U.S. reporter, an American television correspondent recalled her own brief arrest by Iranian police.
June 10, 2009

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.’
March 25, 2009

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.’
March 24, 2009

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.
March 23, 2009

Changing the Drumbeat of Typical Health Reporting

At HealthNewsReview.org ‘… we are on the lookout for those stories that include unsubstantiated claims made in the course of reporting about health.’
March 23, 2009

Tracking Toxics When the Data Are Polluted

How computational journalism can uncover what polluters would prefer to hide.
March 23, 2009