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26 ways to find information on people: Tips for writing about crime on deadline

Source: JournalistsResource.org

So you’re on deadline with breaking news about a crime committed in your community but officials are releasing only basic details: a few facts about the crime and the name and birth date of a person alleged to be involved. Your audience – and your editor – are demanding to know as much about this individual as possible, as quickly as possible. What do you do? How do you report on someone when you have so little information?

Research chat: Pacific Standard editor Maria Streshinsky

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At its founding several years ago, Miller-McCune immediately distinguished itself in the noisy marketplace of magazines by elevating coverage of the world of academic research. More recently, the Santa Barbara-based magazine renamed itself Pacific Standard — a kind of West Coast answer to The Atlantic — aiming to accent its distinctive scholarly coverage with a Western bent.