Editor in Chief Brad Hamilton chats with the award-winning journalist about the reporting journey that led to his new book, “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.” Among the many hot streaks in investigative journalism, it would be hard to top John Carreyrou’s ongoing run. The Wall Street Journal’s deep-dive ace, who won his first Pulitzer in 2003, snagged his second in 2015 after he and a team exposed how Medicare got bilked for $60 billion in…

How the Trump Probe Looks Just Like a Mob Case By Brad Hamilton for the Contently Foundation The revelation on Thursday that a top Republican supporter sought stolen emails from Russian hackers to help the Trump campaign has stirred hopes among the president’s foes that finally there is hard evidence of his team having colluded with foreign criminals to swing…

Family legacy: Donald’s duplicitous father cheated veterans and American tax-payers. His grandfather got rich as a pimp. — The following is an excerpt from “The Truth About Trump,” by Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Michael D’Antonio (2015, Thomas Dunne Books). Two government investigations revealed that [Fred Trump, Donald’s father] consistently bent the rules to wring excess profits out of programs designed to house war veterans and middle-class Americans. Fred’s most…

On April 17, the Contently Foundation published “Frack Off!” in partnership with the Huffington Post. It was a story that spoke to the heart of our mission: an under-reported problem in a corner of the country often forgotten by the media. …

Journalist Tony Schwartz helped create the Donald Trump legend when he co-authored The Art of the Deal. But last year, in an interview with Jane Mayer published in the New Yorker on July 25, Schwartz said he regretted doing the book, which, he said, did not reflect the real Trump…

The following is part of an ongoing series presented by the Contently Foundation. Culled from the many books and magazine articles written about Donald J. Trump, this series aims to reveal some of the influences and qualities that form the character of the American president. From “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” by Harry Hurt III (1993) Hurt is a former New…

By BRAD HAMILTON for the Contently Foundation If you like football, as I do, you’re probably looking forward to tonight’s NFL draft, an annual paroxysm of wishful thinking and, increasingly, a tradition that helps us forget there’s reason to quit the game for good. The threat isn’t that your team…

How mother-and-daughter activists took on a drilling company to protect their town’s drinking water — and set the stage for a game-changing showdown on corporate versus community rights. By Sara Stewart for The Contently Foundation Donald Trump might not know it yet, but he should be worried about Stacy Long. Long, 47, a graphic designer from rural western Pennsylvania, is an avid death metal fan and unlikely threat to his administration. She dresses mostly in black and lives…

Journalist Chris Hamby talks about his reporting process for his 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning series — By Scott Simone for The Contently Foundation It all started with an advanced copy of a government report on the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in southern West Virginia. “We knew that some other news organizations also had it, and we were thinking, ‘What can…