Reporter’s guide: investigating meat, poultry and eggs
Steve Matzker/For Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingA farmer checks an egg for cracks at a farm in Campbell Hill, Ill. The Food Safety and Inspection Service is in charge of monitoring...
View ArticleReporter’s guide: basic agribusiness research tools
Photo by Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingFarmer Craig Anderson of Mansfield, Ill., prepares his tractor's auto steer, which will navigate the machine during most of spring...
View ArticleCovering Big Agribusiness: tipsheets and presentations
The Minnesota Journalism Center's School of Journalism and Mass Communication – in collaboration with the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, and Investigative Reporters and Editors – hosted...
View ArticleFinding, using data on visas and immigration
Brant Houston, Knight Chair in enterprising and investigative reporting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, highlighted different tools reporters can use to cover visas and immigration...
View ArticleInvestigating U-visas and domestic violence visas
Each year, thousands of people are allowed to stay in the United States under special visas because they are victims of domestic violence, human trafficking or criminal activity. Nubia Willman, a...
View ArticleReporter’s guide: Looking into GMOs and biotech companies
Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, have been at the core of some of the loudest and most visible debates in the past few years. As reported by The New York Times in September 2015, industry...
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