Episode 301: Nick Shirley On Investigating Daycare Fraud And Surviving The Blowback

A fraud investigator with a phone camera can shake up more than a newsroom ever could, and that’s exactly why the backlash gets intense. We sit down with Nick Shirley, the 24-year-old independent journalist behind the Quality Learing Center reporting and other viral investigations, to talk about what it’s like to work when you’re recognized everywhere you go. Nick explains why he believes first-person, on-location reporting is what audiences have been missing, how he tries to let subjects exp...