Week of July 1, 2019 Archives
RCI -
Other Investigations
Monday, July 1
Culture Wars and a New Hierarchy Are Roiling Wikipedia
Joseph Bernstein
,
BuzzFeed
Myspace Employees Used 'Overlord' Tool to Spy on Users
Joseph Cox
,
Vice
Century-Long Evolution of the U.S. Army Helmet
David Hambling
,
Popular Mechanics
Shady Reputation Consultants Are Gaming Search Results
Craig Silverman
,
BuzzFeed
Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains
Patrick Clark
,
Bizweek
Tuesday, July 2
Grubhub Fakes 30K Restaurant Websites
Lisa Fickenscher
&
Kevin Dugan
,
New York Post
Meet Silicon Valley's UFO Hunters
M.J. Banias,
Vice
Inside Secret, Derogatory Border Patrol Facebook Group
A.C. Thompson
,
ProPublica
Disciplinary Gender Bias at Wells Fargo Bank
Susan Antilla
,
Intercept, Type Investigations
They Get Bogus Medicine Looking for Cures on Social Media
Abby Ohlheiser
, WP
Wednesday, July 3
Just One More Dead Cyclist in the Big City
Patrick Redford,
Deadspin
Thursday, July 4
Petting Zoos Crawl With Superbugs
Sonja Haller
,
USA Today
Inside Walmart's Jet.com Trouble Thwarting Fight With Amazon
Jason Del Ray
,
Vox
How Ankle Monitors Drive Defendants Into Debt
Ava Kofman
,
ProPublica, NYT Magazine
How Invasive Bradford Pear Tree Imperils U.S. Forests
Amanda Kolson Hurley
,
CityLab
Friday, July 5
Hedge Funds Track Private-Jet Travel to Get Wind of Deals
Justin Bachman
,
Bizweek
Classic Motels Now Last Resorts of the Most Vulnerable
Andrew Fiouzi
,
MEL
We Were on 'House Hunters.' It's Really Fake Reality TV.
Elizabeth Newcamp,
Slate
Saturday, July 6
New Life for Dead Brains: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Matthew Shaer
,
NYT Mag
My Time Inside the Troubling Business of Bounty Hunting
Jeff Winkler
,
GQ
Did Whitey Bulger Steal Masterpieces for the IRA?
Barbie Latza Nadeau
, Daily Beast