Prerequisite: JOUR620.

This class will introduce students to the methodologies for researching financial corruption and domestic extremism through reporting, social media analysis and databases, such as Panama Papers, available through international journalism consortium. Students will be required to identify a reporting project and to work alone or in a small team. Students must be willing to conduct multiple interviews in person and via Zoom or other platforms and at various hours given international time differences. The class will learn the rules governing internationa financial transactions and money laundering and the methodologies employed by various anti-hate groups and law enforcement to track domestic extremists in the United States. We will be joined most weeks by outside experts and professional reporters who have done this type o difficult work.