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The Noir Quarterly
Investigative magazine noir. High contrast, dense long-form.
editors-note
A Note on Method: What We Print and What We Hold
The editor explains the rules behind every investigation in this quarterly: how many sources, how much time to reply, when a story waits, and what we do when we are wrong.
budgets
Reading a Budget Line Like a Suspect
One line in a city budget can tell you more than the speech that introduced it. How we read a single row of a fictional budget, and what the dull columns give away.
records-requests
Wording a Records Request Nobody Can Dodge
A records request is one sentence you write once and are judged by for weeks. Here is how we word ours so that 'no responsive documents' stops being an easy answer.