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The Backstory: Byard Duncan

Paco Alvarez — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Paco Alvarez: So my first question is, how did you get your start in investigative journalism? Byard Duncan: Back in 2015, I joined Reveal as their community manager. So my first role there was managing their social, doing a little bit of engagement reporting work and handling newsletters, things like that. And even though I […]

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911, Please Hold

Paco Alvarez — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:21:36 +0000

The 911 system functions as a sort of promise: Call for help, and someone will be there to respond quickly. But in many American cities, it’s a broken promise. Thanks in part to a widespread understaffing crisis across 911 dispatch centers, hundreds of thousands of callers are left waiting on hold during their most harrowing […]

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The Backstory: Max Rivlin-Nadler

Paco Alvarez — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Paco Alvarez: How did the idea for Courts of Contempt come about? Max Rivlin-Nadler: So since we launched Hell Gate around just over four years ago, this had been something that had been on our mind, which was how nobody has had done a deep dive into how the judicial system as a whole functions […]

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Type Investigations Names Maryam Saleh as Senior Editor for the Springboard Project

Paco Alvarez — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:59:46 +0000

Type Investigations is thrilled to announce that Maryam Saleh has joined the team as senior editor for the Springboard Project, an initiative that supports newsrooms serving historically marginalized communities in building investigative capacity. Saleh will mentor Springboard partners in producing impactful investigations, guiding them from story inception to final edits and publication. She will also […]

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Courts of Contempt

Nina Zweig — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:35:28 +0000

This project was produced in partnership with Hell Gate, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. Judges wield enormous power. Here in the five boroughs, they are often the ultimate arbiters in deciding how many New Yorkers get sent to Rikers Island, where and how new housing will be built, and when children are removed […]

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The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets

Byard Duncan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Every weekday morning outside the 16-story apartment complex at 1400 East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Maryland, students step onto big yellow buses that take them to school. It’s not a particularly pleasant spot: The building faces a fenced-off construction site across six lanes humming with Washington metro-area commuter traffic. But this is an important place […]

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Judges Overseeing Louisiana’s Landmark Oil Cases Have Financial Stakes in Defendants

Garrett Hazelwood — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

This story was published in partnership with Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action, and in collaboration with Verite News and WWNO/WRKF. With support from the H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism. A dozen federal judges have presided over some of the most consequential environmental lawsuits in Louisiana’s history despite having […]

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A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the US border

José Olivares — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:57:15 +0000

This article was produced in partnership with Rest of World. Inside a law enforcement command center in Ciudad Juárez, a police officer scrolled across a map on her touch-screen computer. As she used her fingers to navigate through the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where Juárez is located, different colored bubbles lit up. “That one is […]

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‘A muzzle on elected officials’: NDAs ‘cloak’ Louisiana’s biggest business developments

Drew Hawkins — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

This story was produced as part of the Springboard Project. In November last year, Abigail Whittington heard there might be a data center coming to her hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. She had concerns about how it might impact her community. The massive warehouse-like facilities that power cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and streaming services — are […]

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Exclusive: FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas “Antifa” Trial

Adam Federman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Fort Worth, Texas—On the last day of testimony in the federal “Prairieland” trial—wherein nine activists faced charges related to a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center—the government called its star witness back to the stand. Kyle Shideler, director of counterterrorism research at the right-wing think tank Center for Security Policy, had been […]

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