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Today's Topics
- Investigative Classics: A Weekly Sampler From the Archives
- More Investigative Issues
- Chinese Communist Propaganda Group Paying for Vox Posts - Adam Kredo, WFB
- Testing Out a New Future for Consumer Reports - Karen K. Ho, CJR
- Distinguishing Fact and Opinion in the News - Mitchell et al., Pew Research Center
- Ex-Denver Post 'A Team,' Blockchain Cash Form News Startup - Ben Markus, CPR
- Marketing Site Deleted Almost 6,000 Articles After Plagiarism Charges - Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed
- Journalist Group Staffers Fail to Disclose Conflict of Interest - Aaron Kliegman, WFB
- Armstrong Williams' 'Sweetheart' Deal From Sinclair - Jason Schwartz, Politico
- Why FARA Shouldn't Be Used Against the Press - Alexandra Ellerbeck & Avi Asher-Shapiro, CJR
- Vice, a Company Built on a Bluff - Reeves Wiedeman, New York
- Almost Seventy Percent of Americans Have News Fatigue - Jeffrey Gottfried & Michael Barthel, Pew
- How Journalism Got Out of Touch With the People It Covers - Sarah Jones, CJR
- Seymour Hersh's Memoir of a Life Making the Mighty Sweat - Michael M. Grynbaum, NYT
- 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
- Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey, New York Times, and Ronan Farrow, New Yorker - Public Service
- Staff of the Washington Post - Investigative Reporting
- Staffs of the Arizona Republic and USA Today - Explanatory Reporting
- Staffs of the New York Times and the Washington Post - National Reporting
- Baldwin et al., Reuters - International Reporting
- The Cincinnati Enquirer Staff - Local Reporting
- Staff of the Press-Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif. - Breaking News Reporting
- Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ - Feature Writing
- John Archibald, Alabama Media Group - Commentary
- 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
- "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
