WWG SKILLS-BUILDING WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENT RESEARCHERS 2024-2025

How to Build Source Networks and Report on Large Institutions
Friday, October 18 | 3-4 p.m. Central, Zoom
Presenter: Christopher Leonard, director, WWG
Leonard, a New York Times bestselling author, is known for his searing biographies of powerful corporate and financial institutions, including Tyson Foods in “The Meat Racket,” the Federal Reserve in “The Lords of Easy Money,” and Koch Industries in “Kochland.” His next book investigates weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin and will be published by Crown.

HOW TO USE COURT RECORDS TO FIND CORPORATE SECRETS AND UNDERREPORTED STORIES AND SOURCES
Friday, November 22, 2024 | 3-4 p.m. Central, Zoom
Presenter: Mya Frazier, program director, student development, WWG, fellow
Frazier is an award-winning magazine journalist based in the Midwest, whose narrative features have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is writing a book about the credit scoring system for Knopf.

Find Great Internships and Navigate the Job Market Before Graduation
Friday, December 6, 2024 | 3-4 p.m. Central, Zoom
Presenters: Mya Frazier and Christopher Leonard
This Q&A style session is a time for WWG student researchers to bring their most pressing questions and concerns about finding internships, landing jobs, and navigating a career in journalism after graduation.

How to Report History… But Still Make It Interesting
January 24, 2024 | 3-4 p.m. Central, Zoom
Presenter: Caleb Gayle, WWG, fellow
Gayle, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a professor at Northeastern University, is the author of “We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power,” and the forthcoming, “Black Moses,” the remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.

How to Build a Beat, with Storytelling, Sourcing (and Security)
Friday, February 21, 2025 | 3-4 p.m. Central, Zoom
Presenter: Molly O’Toole, WWG, fellow
O’Toole, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered immigration for The Los Angeles Times, is working on her first book, “The Route,” which investigates the billion-dollar business that brings the world’s refugees to the U.S. border.

WRITING INVESTIGATIVE STORIES THAT HOLD READER’S ATTENTION
Friday, March 14, 2025 | 3-4 p.m. Central
Presenter: Alec MacGillis, WWG, fellow
MacGillis, senior reporter at ProPublica, is the author of “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.” He is writing an investigative memoir about the legacy of General Electric and industrial decline in his hometown of Pittsfield, Mass.

FINDING AND DEVELOPING SOURCES AMONG VULNERABLE AND EXPLOITED WORKERS
Friday, April 18 | 3-4 p.m. Central, Zoom
Presenter: Ted Genoways, WWG, fellow
Genoways is a professor of media studies at the University of Tulsa and the author of five books, including “The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food.” His next book, “The Kill Floor: Big Meat and the Future of America,” chronicles the demographic shifts in several meatpacking towns and the concurrent rise in white nationalism in the same communities.

Recent Stories
Watch here for new stories regularly.
“The Unequal Effects of School Closings”
Alec MacGillis
The New Yorker/ProPublica, August 2024
“How a Refugee’s American Dream Ended in a Police Killing”
Ted Genoways
The New Republic, May 2023
“Black, Evangelical and Torn”
Caleb Gayle
New York Times Magazine, March 2023
“The Out Crowd”
Molly O’Toole
This American Life, November 2019