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Article: The Chauncey Bailey Project: Media coalition reinvents Arizona Project model
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- Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Late on a Thursday afternoon in early December, the Oakland Tribune's newsroom crackled with work on the Chauncey Bailey Project.
Two reporters yelled back and forth about shotgun shells and a statement in a deposition about a 25-year-old unsolved murder. At another desk, a journalism professor and a retired reporter hunched over a laptop, working on a database that contained thousands of bits of information that graduate students had culled from public records like deeds, liens and mortgages.
Across a partition, fellow investigative reporter A.C. Thompson and I pored over police documents, tightening a story to be published the next morning. Behind us, a writer from an alternative weekly ...