Recent Stories
The Watchdog Writers Group publishes stories that highlight the work of our authors and students, while publicizing our activities. 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
“What Germany’s Effort to Leave Coal Behind Can Teach the U.S.”
Alec MacGillis
The New Yorker/ProPublica, January 2022
“Beyond Big Meat”
Ted Genoways
The New Republic, August 2020
“They Followed Doctors’ Orders. Then Their Children Were Taken Away.”
Shoshana Walter
The New York Times Magazine
“The High Cost of Bad Credit”
Mya Frazier
The New York Times Magazine
“High-fee crypto ATMs center around low-income parts of Kansas City”
Dan Mika
The Kansas City Beacon
“For incarcerated women, worries about losing child custody”
Alisa Roth
Marketplace
“The Fall and Rise of a $1.7 trillion Fighter Plane”
Christopher Leonard
Fortune Magazine
“Reviving the soil: Boone County rancher helps lead a movement in regenerative agriculture”
Jana Rose Schleis
KBIA
“For incarcerated women with newborns, an Indiana prison unit offers a chance to bond”
Alisa Roth
Marketplace
“In the Running: The Trials of an Almost Candidate”
Sarah Smarsh
Harper’s Magazine
“Why the Florida Fantasy Withstands Reality”
Michael Grunwald
The Atlantic
“This Super Tree Could Help Feed the World and Fight Climate Change”
Michael Grunwald
Canary Media
“In Focus: Black Youth Resilience in Minnesota”
Alisa Roth
Minnesota Public Radio
“Under Pressure: Inside the College Mental Health Crisis”
American Public Media”
Alisa Roth
American Public Media
“When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go?”
Mya Frazier
The New York Times Magazine
“Biden pitched a bold climate vision. He may be watching it die in Congress”
Michael Grunwald
Politico
“At hundreds of rehabs, recovery means work without pay”
Shoshana Walter
Reveal
“False Witness”
Pamela Colloff
The New York Times Magazine
“Fields of Debt: Falling prices, borrowing binge haunt Midwest ‘go-go farmers’”
P.J. Huffstutter
Reuters
“Jay Powell and the End of ‘Normal’ at the Fed”
Christopher Leonard
Time
“A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?”
John Eligon
The New York Times
11TH HOUR PROJECT AWARDS $1.1 MILLION, 3-YEAR GRANT TO WATCHDOG WRITERS GROUP
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Missouri School of Journalism launches new investigative fellowship program to support authors
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