investigative reporting

Laurel, an aspiring investigative journalist, becomes a social outcast after writing an article about cheating at her high school, but she continues to pursue the story with no thought to the people she might be hurting, until she makes a shocking discovery.

"Future investigative reporter Sabrina, fourteen, researches a popular website where people post horror videos, hoping to prove they are not as real as they seem until her sister, a big fan of the site, disappears"--Provided by publisher.

The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattoed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age -- and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness -- assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest ecehelon of Swedish industrialism -- and a surprising connection between themselves.

During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

It s been over a hundred years since Principal Victory Piggot terrified his last student, but now he s back. Sort of. It s up to Jonny to investigate, before Piggot unleashes unspeakable horrors on the school (including extra phys ed).

"In this timely and intriguing novel, a TV journalist and ex-Navy SEAL delve deep under the surface of political influence and power to uncover the corruption that lies beneath. Risk-taking investigative television journalist Alix Phillips dashes from hot spot to hot spot around the world in the company of her equally intrepid camerman, ex-Navy SEAL Ben Chapman. Alix and Ben put their lives--and their hearts--on the line in a perilous assignment that has them in pursuit of a corrupt Vice President linked to the revered widow of a visionary, assassinated scion of a powerful political family"--Provided by publisher.

Provides an introduction to investigative journalism for kids, discussing famous journalists, or "muckrackers," from the history including Nellie Bly.

"Destiny Davis never imagined being an investigative reporter, but her sixth sense for drama and backstabbing caught Mr. Holt's attention. Now she's an intern at Chatter, his new blog syndicate, and she's knee-deep in sleazy politics."-- Provided by the publisher.

Tells the story of two journalists and their quest to unmask corrupt police officers accused of sexually abusing suspects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.