The Genesis of 'An Unbelievable Story of Rape'

How ProPublica and The Marshall Project joined forces for a powerful investigation.

Last week, The Marshall Project and ProPublica published “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” a longform joint investigation into the crimes of a serial rapist. Today, on Christmas Eve, the site’s respective editors in chief Bill Keller and Stephen Engelberg are sharing how it all came together.

In the old days of daily newspaper competition, which Keller and Engelberg know well from their previous time in Washington D.C. working for Dallas papers and The New York Times, the instinct upon discovering that a rival was on the same story would have been to quickly rush to beat them.

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