CIR and WFMU launched Toxic Comedy to spotlight the very serious ways that pollution affects communities across New Jersey through fact-based stand-up
Cole Goins
Director of Community Engagement
Cole Goins is the director of community engagement for Reveal, where he cultivates partnerships that blend in-depth journalism and creative public engagement. He has built and supported distribution networks, spearheaded arts-based initiatives such as the Off/Page Project, led social media and audience strategy, and facilitated statewide media collaborations. He was a senior fellow in the 2015 USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellowships, mentoring five journalists on approaches to community engagement. Previously, Goins was the engagement editor at the Center for Public Integrity, where he led audience development initiatives and multimedia features for award-winning investigative projects. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked as music director for WXYC, the student-run radio station. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
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How an art student helped enhance our investigations
Here’s what we and art student Neha Dharkar learned in CIR’s first animation summer internship.
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Finding humor in toxic contamination. Seriously.
In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, CIR and WFMU are teaming up to launch a new initiative exploring New Jersey’s toxic legacy through comedy. Yes, comedy.
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What do you want to know about mass shootings in America?
What do you feel is missing from the news coverage? What questions linger when the media attention fades?
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How a New Jersey couple’s battle with a leaking oil tank became theater
New Jersey couple Eliot and Anna Zigmund shared their oil tank plight – a cleanup process that has cost them more than $600,000 to date.
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Tell us your experience with job discrimination
With our investigation into America’s temp industry, Reveal is launching a campaign to explore the many faces of workplace discrimination. And we need your help to do it.
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How New Jersey newsrooms are working together to expose local contamination
CIR is facilitating a collaboration to explore the impacts of contaminated sites across New Jersey.
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Art students give Reveal stories the animated GIF treatment
With new Reveal investigations, we look for opportunities to create visual loops that help articulate key facts and concepts.
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StoryWorks heads to North Dakota for ‘North by Inferno’
The latest production by StoryWorks, an experimental project from The Center for Investigative Reporting that produces theater inspired by investigative journalism, recounts the deadliest accident in the history of the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota.
Posted inInside the Newsroom, Local Law Enforcement, Surveillance and Privacy
What Oakland, California, residents think about police surveillance
What do you think about when you hear the word “surveillance?” Along with three local artists, we posed that question to residents in Oakland, California, in an experimental art-meets-journalism project.