Archive for January, 2016

Here are five stories you can do using ProPublica’s interactive database, Debt by Degrees. Each one comes complete with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions.

Source: Reporting Recipe: How to Investigate Student Debt at Your College – ProPublica

For Car Dealers the Hardest Sell Is on the Hill (Washington Post)
1100+ Words

6473 Texts a Month But at What Cost (Washington Post)
1200+ Words

Trapped in Their Own Homes (New York Times)
1600+ Words

Giving readers a reason to care.

Source: The Nut Graf, Part I

According to text messages in new court documents, U-Va. student was aggressively pursuing a romantic relationship but had been rebuffed just ahead of now-discounted rape allegations.

Source: ‘Catfishing’ over love interest might have spurred U-Va. gang-rape debacle

Talking journalism, and craft, in the writing bunker of one of the greats.

Source: Studio Visit: Gay Talese — The Hand & Eye