Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale
Lead digital and communications strategy for a new public-interest journalism lab, creating social media content. Work with New Yorker reporter Sarah Stillman to create social content highlighting stories from emerging journalists. Produce social content for the Felony Murder Reporting Project, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning digital storytelling hub. (Set to launch Spring 2025.)
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The best investigative pieces uncover stories hidden in the margins. So how does a journalist come up with a good story idea?
Sarah Stillman — staff writer at The New Yorker and founder of the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale — shares the advice she gives Yale students.
What is the felony murder rule? We take a look at how an arcane legal rule sends people to prison for killings they did not commit.
What makes a good story pitch?
A staff writer at The New Yorker and founder of our the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale, Sarah Stillman takes us on the journey of pitching her first successful story.
A college student in Chicago was sentenced to 28 years in prison ... for a killing committed by the police. IRLY reporter Caleb Dunson reports on how the felony murder rule changed Tim Jones' life. Full story in The Appeal at the link in our bio.