The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team likes to seek out issues that impact people across the state, pinpoint the perpetrators of injustice and inequity and highlight the people looking for solutions.
Every year, our small team turns down countless requests from people wanting us to dig into allegations of corruption, chicanery, malfeasance or wrongs. This year was no different.
Communities need more reporters willing to sift through muck to find truth and to shine a light in darkened places. But the news industry is on the ropes. Artificial intelligence, misinformation, and echo chamber politics are hurling heavy blows to how information is shared across the country…