{"id":136059,"date":"2018-04-02T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=136059"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:05:21","slug":"the-art-of-muckraking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/04\/the-art-of-muckraking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Muckraking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Mike Stanton talk about his lifelong career in journalism is a lot like reading one of his stories. He speaks in simple sentences, rich with details and colorful observations that draw you in. Storytelling seems second nature to the Pulitzer Prize-winner and associate professor of journalism.<\/p>\n<p>That was not always the case. Growing up in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Stanton was a shy kid. His vivid imagination and love of reading are what led him to start writing, he says. Telling stories and a career in journalism naturally followed. During his nearly 30 years at the <em>Providence Journal<\/em>, he worked on one blockbuster story after another, either on his own or as part of a team.<\/p>\n<p>At 59, his quiet demeanor belies a reputation for hard-nosed investigative reporting that has toppled corrupt politicians, crooked judges, and big-time Mafia wise guys. Stanton has a steely resolve when it comes to digging up facts and exposing wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2018\/02\/09\/the-art-of-muckraking\/\">magazine.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Stanton, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a key player in the hit podcast &#8216;Crimetown,&#8217; teaches tried-and-true &#8216;shoe leather&#8217; investigative journalism. He hopes students will turn his old-school skill set into new-medium magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":136062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2317,2225,2227,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-136059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-journalism","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-edu-homepage","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 09:27:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136064,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136059\/revisions\/136064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/136062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136059"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=136059"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=136059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}