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Today's Topics
- Investigative Classics: A Weekly Sampler From the Archives
- The Trump Archives: Original Work From RealClearInvestigations
- A Look Back at RCI's Coverage of the Parkland School Massacre
- More Investigative Issues
- New Normal: Journalists Jailed Globally - Committee to Protect Journalists
- Will the Leakers in the Flynn Case Escape Justice? - Julie Kelly, American Greatness
- Annual 'Jealousy List' of Competitors' Stories - Bloomberg Businessweek
- NPR's Army of Resentful Temps - Paul Farhi, Washington Post
- NPR's Folkenflik: Ailes Tried to Make It Painful to Cover Fox - J. Max Robins, CJR
- Alleged Fabricator Behind Guardian's Manafort-Assange 'Bombshell' - Paul Farhi, WP
- H'wood Sites Ignore Avenatti's Actress Accuser - Christian Toto, Hollywood in Toto
- Newspapers Held Polluters in Check. But No More? - Sophie Yeo, Pacific Standard
- Bannon, Chinese Critic Create Fund to Investigate Beijing - Brian Spegele, Wall Street Journal
- Activists, Democrats, Media Smear DeVos Over New Campus Sex-Assault Rules - Robby Soave, Reason
- The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web' - Amelia Lester, Politico Magazine
- 'Nothing on This Page Is Real': How Lies Become Truth Online - Eli Saslow, Washington Post
- Zuckerberg Won't Hesitate to Ax Employees Who Talk to Media - Mike Isaac, New York Times
- The Sorry State of FOIA - C.J. Ciaramella, Reason
- Democrats to Probe Trump for Targeting CNN, Washington Post - Mike Allen, Jim Vandehei, Axios
- Media Celebrate Minnesota Muslim's Win as Historic, Ignore Her Skeletons - David Steinberg, PJ
- Newsrooms More White and Male Than U.S. Workers Overall - Elizabeth Grieco, Pew Research
- Why Did Media, Dems Abandon Investigating Kavanaugh? - Mollie Hemingway, Federalist
- How Sinclair Pushed Local TV to the Right - Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker
- RealClear Is at Center of Left-Right Media Bias Chart - SharylAttkisson.com
- 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
- Other Journalism Awards
- 2018 Edward R. Murrow Award Winners
- 2018 Mirror Award Winners and Finalists
- 2018 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma
- 2018 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award Winner
- 2018 Meyer "Mike" Berger Award Winner
- 2018 April Sydney Award Winner
- 2017 IRE Award Winners and Finalists
- 2018 American Society of News Editors Award Winners
- 2018 Lukas Prize Project Winners
- 2018 National Magazine Award Winners
- 2018 Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize Winners
- 2018 Polk Award Winners
- 2018 Hearst Award Winners
- 2018 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Winners
- Investigative Tools
- FOIA.gov
- Judicial Watch FOIA Handbook
- Trump Twitter Archive
- Trump Town - Tracking Staff and Appointees Across the Government
- Muckrock - File, Track, Share FOIA Requests
- Investigative Dashboard
- Federal Government Spending Chart
- Open Secrets
- WikiLeaks Archive
- Open the Books
- Election DataBot
- Foreign Influence Explorer
- IRE Resource Center
- Nonprofit Database
- SPJ Toolbox
- Investigative Documentaries
- Investigative Book Excerpts
- "The Fifth Risk" by Michael Lewis
- "Contempt" by Ken Starr
- "Dictator Pope" by Marcantonio Colonna (Henry Sires)
- "Big Game" by Mark Leibovich
- "Secret Empires" by Peter Schweizer
- "How to Catch a Russia Spy" by Naveed Jamali and Ellis Henican
- "Russian Roulette" by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- "The Judiciary's Class War" by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
- "American Pravda" by James O'Keefe
- "Brotopia" by Emily Chang
- "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff
- "Spy Schools" by Daniel Golden
- "The Death of an Heir" by Philip Jett
- "Confidential Source Ninety-Six" by Roman Caribe, Robert Cea
- "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump ..." by Joshua Green
- "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty ..." by Russ Baker
- "Asteroid Hunters" by Carrie Nugent
- "Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures ..." by Richard Harris
- "Thirteen Seconds" (about Kent State) by Philip Caputo
- “Shattered’’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
- "The Gatekeepers: How White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency" by Whipple
- "Maximum Harm" by Michele McPhee (about Tamerlan Tsarnaev)
- "The Campus Rape Frenzy" by KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr.
- "Democracy's Detectives" by James T. Hamilton
