ABSTRACT
Once the journalists involved were convinced a “big story” was at stake, the
investigation followed two different but connected paths: Corey Johnson collected
interviews and documents to account for this massive regulatory crisis, while Agustin
Armendariz, a “data analyst,” was in charge of designing the database. However, as
Agustin started merging the various datasets in October 2009, a host of difficulties
arose, essentially due to the emergence of a gap between the epistemological frame-
work that the journalists involved had relied on, and the features of the investigation.
