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Sophie Culpepper

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Staff Writer, Local News at Nieman Lab

Staff writer @NiemanLab, [email protected]. Previously @ObserverLex, always @the_herald. Local news enthusiast, midnights become my afternoons

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Articles

  • The New York Times’ local investigations fellowship gives local reporters the time and resources to take big swings

    3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

    If last year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a “coming-out party for online media,” this year’s winners were dominated, for the most part, by national legacy media. But one young honoree this year stood out among the national outlets: the local nonprofit Baltimore Banner took home its first Pulitzer Prize for a series on the city’s fentanyl crisis. The series was reported by The Banner’s Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme, and Jessica Gallagher, and produced in partnership with The New York Times.

  • The New York Times’ local investigations fellowship gives local reporters the time and resources to take big swings

    3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

    If last year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a “coming-out party for online media,” this year’s winners were dominated, for the most part, by national legacy media. But one young honoree this year stood out among the national outlets: the local nonprofit Baltimore Banner took home its first Pulitzer Prize for a series on the city’s fentanyl crisis. The series was reported by The Banner’s Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme, and Jessica Gallagher, and produced in partnership with The New York Times.

  • By deepening high school sports coverage, The Boston Globe sees an opportunity to gain new subscribers

    1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

    LINK: www.bostonglobemedia.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Sophie Culpepper   |   May 8, 2025A deep look at how private money has taken over high school hockey. An investigation of the consequences, and structural causes, of a high school football player’s devastating brain injury. An obituary honoring a star Concord-Carlisle High School diver killed in a Florida car crash. These are a few of the stories from recent months that exemplify The Boston Globe’s push to deepen its coverage of high school sports.

  • How Outlier is helping Detroiters get millions of dollars back from Wayne County

    1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

    Last October, Detroit local and property data analyst Alex Alsup published a Substack with an eye-catching headline: “2,400 Former Detroit Homeowners Might Be Able to Recover a Total of $20M in Tax Foreclosure Profits.”That’s a lot of people owed a lot of money.

  • Blue checks (Bluesky’s version): What journalists need to know

    1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

    LINK: bsky.social  ➚   |   Posted by: Sophie Culpepper   |   April 22, 2025If you’re a journalist who made the move from the bird to the butterfly app, you may be excited to hear that the blue check is now a Bluesky feature. On Monday, the Bluesky team announced the launch of this new (old?) form of verification in a blog post.

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