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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.
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

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.
March 23, 2009

Diving Into Data to Tell Untold Medical Stories

‘The U.S. press seemed to accept as established truth that cholesterol lowering is vital and that statins are the closest thing to wonder drugs. I’m not any smarter than my…
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

Silenced Words: An Op-ed That Couldn’t Find a Home

John Abramson, Jim Wright, and Merrill Goozner, author of “The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs,” coauthored an op-ed about the JUPITER trial that was…
March 23, 2009

Reliable News: Errors Aren’t Part of the Equation

In the transition to digital journalism, accuracy—as an indicator of quality—must maintain its place at the top of the list of essential ingredients.
March 23, 2009

Tracking Toxics When the Data Are Polluted

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

Crowdfunded Reporting: Readers Pay for Stories to Be Told

‘Reporting for Spot.Us, where money directly changes hands, is the same as reporting any story for Wired.com. For Spot.Us, the ethical promise inheres in the transparency of the funding.’
March 23, 2009