Unaccompanied Minors Made Headlines. The People Who Gave the Orders Remain Unnamed.
Kayla Dones retraces a two-year inquiry into the federal handling of unaccompanied migrant children and asks how decisions moved through the chain of command.
The Reporting Desk
The newsroom.
Follow the work through investigations, field reporting and practical guides to the craft.
ActBlue Under the Microscope, WinRed Nowhere in Sight
Kayla Dones describes how volunteers followed up on unusual donation records and argues for applying the same scrutiny to ActBlue and WinRed.
Dearborn Isn’t What the Viral Clips Tell You:
Protagonist HQ looks beyond footage of a confrontation in Dearborn, Michigan, to examine how the city’s Arab American and Muslim communities took shape.
How to verify a viral clip before you publish
A newsroom guide to finding the earliest available footage, checking what it shows, and writing a caption that holds up.
How to build a timeline from records and interviews
A newsroom guide to turning documents, interviews, and gaps into a chronology another reporter can verify.