ABSTRACT
WhAT IS INvESTIGATIvE REPORTING? ouise Kiernan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for the Chicago Tribune, once wrote that when people would ask her whether she was an investiga-
tive reporter, she never knew how to answer. “Categorizing journalism is in part why many investigative stories are dull, feature stories can be superficial, and explanatory stories explain so little,” she wrote. “For complicated stories we need to combine all three.”1
