St. Paul Pioneer Press KARE-TV (NBC) Wilder Research Center Breaking out of the daily police blotter routine, the paper commissioned a poll of 2,853 Twin City residents that explored public attitudes toward crime and safety and assigned a team of four reporters to look at crime in the context of race, age, gender and geography. […]

Idaho Falls Post Register Lewiston Morning Tribune Idaho Spokesman-Review Idaho Public Television KTVB (NBC, Boise) This unique partnership sparked a statewide conversation on Idaho’s runaway prison spending with “Collision Course,” a five-part series that revealed the hidden cost of building more jails and engaged hundreds of people in the search for alternatives. As a point […]

The Charlotte Observer WSOC-TV (ABC) WPEG-AM WBTV (CBS) Pew funds supported the hiring of a community coordinator, Charlene Price-Patterson, who was instrumental in organizing town meetings and focus groups and coordinating reader response. Reporting started with a computer-assisted analysis of two years of crime statistics that helped the partners select which neighborhoods to focus on. […]