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The article offers information on involvement of author in the investigation and the publication of news related to Panama Papers. Topics discussed include data on company registries of 19 tax havens and offshore providers; role of International Consortium of Investigative Journalist in managing and analyzing massive amounts of data and coordinating communication between journalists; and disguising their identity by customers of law firm Mossack Fonseca.

The article focuses on the European Investigative Collaboration (EIC) Network as a decentralized platform aimed to protect the security of documents used in cross-boarder reporting. It mentions that the EIC network follows its framework from high-profile leaks including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers that have been collaboratively investigated by journalists from different countries. It cites the partners of EIC.network including El Mundo of Spain and Mediapart of France.

The article focuses on the need to maintain a local focus in investigative reporting. A series of articles by "The Seattle Times" newspaper of Seattle, Washington is used an example. The articles presented an in-depth analysis of sealed court cases in the Seattle region. A laborious investigation showed an inordinate number of such cases, many of which had been sealed in direct violation of law governing public records. Expensive litigation was needed to force the sealed cases to be made public. A number of those cases involved malfeasance by public officials. Investigative reporting requires considerable resources but in terms of labor and money. Using those resources in the paper's community allows it to have more leverage and pursue the issue in-depth. Other newspapers in other cities have run similar series on sealed court records. It is likely the newspapers had more effect in exposing and ending the abuses of that practive by acting separately in their own market rather than attempting to provide a "national" overview of the issue.

The article reports on the decision of journalist Ann Simmons to move to New Orleans, Louisiana for the "Los Angeles Times" to cover the many issues involved in the rebuilding of the city after Hurricane Katrina. She has been the paper's roving state reporter since 2004 and has been with the paper since 1997.

This article reflects on the life of a former journalist. She left The Philadelphia Enquirer publishing in July 2001. It was by choice. Like other reporters and editors who left the publishing in successive series of buyouts, she could not bear to watch the paper affected by the decisions of Knight Ridder, Inc., its parent company. In the interest of higher profit margins, the Ridder side of the corporation embarked on a strategy that eventually affected its foreign bureaus, closed most of its national bureaus, shrunk the news hole and reduced the physical size of the paper, giving it the look of a tabloid. Her departure from the Inquirer marked the end of a 30-year career in print journalism--first at The Oregon Times, a magazine of investigative reporting; then at The Oregonian, where her reporting played a key role in overturning a one-way desegregation plan, and finally at the Inky, where she had the adventures of a lifetime. Among them were reconstructing a 46-day strike at the publishing; witnessing the devastation of the AIDS pandemic in inner-city American and in the developing world.

The author shares his views as former executive editor of "The Clarion-Ledger" of Jackson, Mississippi on what he would do if he was reappointed editor of the local newspaper. The initiatives he would take include maintaining an investigative reporting culture, eliminating home delivery of the Monday paper, and accepting that newsroom can no longer cover everything. He also intends to bring back training, embrace and use social media tools, and cover the community better than anyone else.

The article presents a first-person account of the creation and work of the investigative reporting unit of the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" newspaper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The author, editor of the unit, credits editor Martin Kaiser for the paper's commitment to investigative reporting. With 10 reporters and editors on its staff, the unit is one of the largest of its type in the U.S. The interactive features of the newspaper's Web site which allow readers to offer information to the investigative reporters and communicate with them while stories are created is described as being of considerable value to the unit.

The article focuses on how newspaper reporters and editors doing investigative reporting can earn the financial support necessary for long-term projects from their publishers and if necessary from the management of the corporation which owns the newspaper. A first person narrative is presented by a reporter for the "The Albany Times-Union" newspaper of Albany, New York of how that paper produced a major scoop by publishing a story detailing how an Orlando, Florida pharmacy had been selling anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes. The decisive role played by the management of the Hearst Corporation, which owns the newspaper, in the creation of the story is cited. The company supported the costly legal action necessary to obtain court records vital to document the information presented in the report.

A lawyer who once was a federal prosecutor and counsel to powerful Congressional committees, Melanie Sloan now chases legal and ethical wrongdoing in Congress. As executive director of the nonprofit [...]

To say that the subject of reporter J. Andrew Curliss's 'Twisted Truth' series was difficult is putting it mildly. Tracey Cline, the district attorney of Durham, North Carolina, repeatedly battled [...]