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  • Magazine editor shares how he got access to health insurer’s darkest secrets

    How does a magazine copy editor get former executives to reveal the unsavory details of the U.S. health insurance industry? For Chris Stanton, an editor at New York Magazine who also writes about culture, politics and health insurance, the answer is twofold: First, be prepared for the unexpected, and second, have good sources. Or at…

  • How one reporter revealed dangerous levels of radioactivity in groundwater

    In April 2025, The Toledo Blade published a groundbreaking investigation revealing dangerously high levels of radioactivity in groundwater across Luckey, Ohio — a village shadowed by its Cold War-era legacy.  The newspaper’s independent testing uncovered alarming concentrations of bismuth-214, which decays from the radioactive gas radon-222, in water samples from public locations such as Eastwood…

  • Former GQ editor shares what you should know before starting a SubStack

    When Chris Gayomali got laid off by Conde Nast in 2024, he started spending more time at the gym. “I was working out all of the time because I didn’t have anything else to do,” said Gayomali, who’d worked as an editor for GQ for nine years. Within a few months, Gayomali’s intensified interest in fitness…

  • Reporter exposes network of AI-generated ‘local’ newsletters

    Nieman Lab reporter Andrew Deck knew something seemed off when he received the “Good Day Fort Collins” e-newsletter despite claims it was produced by the local community. After discussing it with a local journalist source, they agreed it was AI-generated. Andrew Deck His recent story, “Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting ‘small town America’”…

  • Reporters uncover overlooked red flags after a Tennessee school shooting

    On Jan. 22, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson walked into his Nashville high school with a gun and fatally shot a 16-year-old girl before turning the gun on himself.  In the weeks following the shooting, two reporters dug into the boy’s troubling past and found several concerning red flags raised to Tennessee authorities. The reporters, Aliyya Swaby…

  • How to cover the survivors of firearm violence 

    Earlier this year, a mass shooting disrupted the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and injuring several. In a multi-part KCUR series, “The Injured,” two reporters investigate what happened to the children and adults who survived the mass shooting and are living with the physical and emotional toll for potentially the rest of…

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