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The Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette launched an investigation and produced an impressive multimedia Web site and a part series of stories.
The reporter, Jennifer Hemmingsen , worked on the story while also covering her everyday crime and courts beat. The Gazette has five staff photographers and two managers in the photo department.
Brian Ray, the photographer for this project, is the only photographer in the Iowa City newsroom. In the e-mail version of this report I incorrectly said he was the only staff photographer. The secret to their success? Sticking to small towns, keeping a low profile and counting on the silence of their customers and associates. I interviewed Hemmingsen about the project by e-mail and, as you will see below, I asked some more questions of her and photojournalist Brian Ray via Skype.
You can see the video below. Tompkins: Prostitution? In rural Iowa? How did this investigation start? Hemmingsen: In and , then-public safety reporter Zack Kucharski began covering a number of court cases accusing men of sexually abusing the same year-old girl.
He learned the charges were connected to a massive investigation involving a drug investigation, a prostitution ring and a girl who had been kidnapped and trafficked from Minnesota. Gazette Senior Editor Lyle Muller, who is himself from a small Iowa town, wanted to know how this could have happened in such rural areas β the girl was victimized in towns with populations as low as people.