Podcast: Journalist Dave Levinthal analyzed how many journalists, reporters and editors gave to a 2016 presidential campaign. Of the small percentage that did, most gave to Hillary Clinton.

Should Media Employees Give to Campaigns?

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The Breakthrough: How Reporters Really Use Unnamed Sources

Watchlists, informants and social media investigations. What exactly are FBI agents allowed to do?

The Breakthrough: Uncovering the FBI’s Secret Rules

How a team of New York Times reporters chronicled every homicide in a Bronx precinct and what they learned about policing.

The Breakthrough: Reporters Examine Murder Where Cops Struggle to Curb It

Russian journalist and editor Elizaveta Osetinskaya published hard-hitting stories about the Kremlin. And it cost her her job.

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Reporters at the Chicago Tribune set out to learn whether pharmacies in Chicago have been warning patients who’ve been prescribed risky combinations of drugs.

Should Media Employees Give to Campaigns?

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