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Marines with Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3, run for cover during a fire fight in Nawa District, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 2, 2009. Dave Philipps covers veterans issues, and found out about suicidal veterans who had served in Afghanistan through a social media group they used. (Lance Cpl. John McCall via ISAF Public Affairs/Flickr Creative Commons)

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Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Philipps on using social media to find untold stories

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Jul 11, 2017

Treat political reporting as storytelling. That's advice from Ben Schreckinger, a reporter for POLITICO. Before reporting about politics in Washington, D.C., Ben was a GroundTruth Fellow reporting from Burma. (Kevin Harber/Flickr)

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How to get into political journalism and do it really well

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Jun 27, 2017

GroundTruth fellows Nichole Sobecki (left) and Laura Heaton (right) stand between two cannons on their reporting trip to Somalia, where they documented links between drought and violent conflict.

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Reporting in a high-risk place? Here’s how you can prepare.

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Jun 12, 2017

Nichole Sobecki (pictured) reported in Somalia and Dadaab refugee camp for The GroundTruth Project.

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Freelancers, here’s how to nudge news outlets to actually pay you

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May 26, 2017

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How to succeed in photojournalism, according to Ed Kashi

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May 15, 2017

(Illustration by Natalie Kenney/GroundTruth)

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Six tips from the ‘Spotlight’ team that exposed the clergy sex abuse scandal

This article originally appeared on Navigator, GroundTruth's newsletter for early-career journalists. The Boston Globe’s original investigative team, depicted...

May 01, 2017