Investigative Reporting

When I was an undergraduate student back in China, my dream was to become an investigative reporter. Every time I watched the most famous investigative program on CCTV - "News Probe", I was impassioned by the excellent questions asked by the reporters and the meaningful silence on camera.

NPR's Daniel Zwerdling, an investigative reporter, went to the Columbia J-School one month ago. He discussed the process of creating an investigative report for radio. Zwerdling's acclaimed investigative and documentary reports appear on all of NPR's major news shows.

Here is the audio of Zwerdling's speech