The trouble with tigers in America
As a subculture of enthusiasts raises and breeds the big cats, authorities now say there probably are more of the animals in
cages in the United States than in the wild across the world.
The Accountability Project, a new resource for public data
Seeing a need to streamline public data sets, we built The Accountability Project to put much of that data in one place so journalists, researchers and others could search across otherwise siloed data.
Rose Ann Robertson
Rose Ann Robertson is IRW’s chief copy editor. She was a newspaper reporter and wire service editor for 20 years, editing and directing coverage of plane crashes, natural disasters and national and state elections. She was at AU from 1993 until retiring recently as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Communication. …
Margot Susca
Margot Susca (Ph.D., Florida State University) is a professorial lecturer in SOC’s journalism division who also heads the weekend M.A. program in Journalism and Digital Storytelling and is an associate editor at the Investigative Reporting Workshop in the summers. She teaches courses in reporting, journalism ethics, children’s media culture, mass media and society, and code. …
Emma Caramazza
Emma Caramazza is a rising senior at Sidwell Friends School, where she is a culture editor at the student newspaper, The Horizon. At her high school, she is the captain of the rowing team, and takes part as a staff writer for the diversity magazine, InLight.
Introducing The Accountability Project, a new resource for public data
Searching across public data sets can be arduous, particularly on deadline. But any good journalist knows that finding threads among campaign finance data, property records, business ownership and other sources can yield important stories about conflicts of interest, outsized influence and other issues that warrant deeper public scrutiny. That’s why the Investigative Reporting Workshop created …
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Keep going? Resilient reporters stay the course
When Capital Gazette Editor Rick Hutzell, the keynote speaker at the annual Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, described those who died in a shooting that devastated his newsroom a year ago, I looked around the room and saw their faces. The five who died were reflected in the 1,350 journalists eating lunch in the ballroom …
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Streaming now: Audio investigations
We might be living in the golden age of podcasts. Investigative journalists, from reporters in the world’s largest newsrooms to independent producers striking out on their own, are using audio to tell stories previously reserved for 5,000-word stories. At IRW, we’ve curated a list of some of the best investigative podcasts for your binging pleasure. …
A banking mystery
State regulators shuttered a local bank in rural Texas last month citing “insider abuse and fraud by former officers,” breaking a string of 17 months without a bank failure. Texas Banking Commissioner Charles G. Cooper called the closure of Enloe State Bank an “isolated case” in a recent interview. Other experts agree the May 31, …
Streaming now: films that dig deep
When asked how she got a homeless mother in New York City to share her story in the film “Lucky,” journalist Laura Checkoway said writing celebrity profiles for publications and in-depth pieces helped her develop a knack for getting people to open up; that, and a lot of patience. Checkoway was on assignment when she …
