Sy Hersh suggested one way to encourage better investigative reporting — fire the editors. Instead, he should read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In a time of severe cutbacks and layoffs for ...

How do six reporters share an article? Their editor explains. Credit...Vinnie Neuberg/The New York Times Supported by By Terence McGinley In April, the Trump administration sent a group of more than ...

Transnational collaborative investigations are vital for confronting corruption and state abuse that transcends borders, ...

Next year we celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, and yet one of the most critical components of our free society — an independent, unbiased free press — is at a tipping point, and you have more ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Central High School graduate Alissa Zhu has earned what’s widely regarded as the highest honor in journalism. Zhu, a 2011 CHS alumna, was part of the team at The Baltimore Banner ...

In a memo to staff on Thursday, Executive Editor Julie Pace announced AP will launch a Local Investigative Reporting Program led by Ron Nixon: I am excited to announce an important step we are taking ...

With recent congressional scrutiny on NPR and the broader public media system, many people are asking how and why NPR news stories come to be. The NPR investigative reporting unit is a small group of ...

Renee Ferguson spent more than 25 years as a reporter on two Chicago television stations, and she made history as the first Black woman to work as an investigative reporter on TV in Chicago. During ...

“Basically, we get paid to be right, to be rigorous. Because if the story is wrong, the investment or the lawsuit fails. Markets and courts, while severely flawed, are still fairly good at getting to ...

In 2025, Mongabay’s investigative journalism earned international honors for stories exposing environmental crime, corruption, and abuse of both people and the environment. Mongabay journalists ...

The Buffalo School Board has released the independent investigative report it commissioned following allegations raised in April 2025 and later podcasts concerning the district’s handling of ...