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Eric Ferkenhoff

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Doesn't Cover: Fashion and entertainment
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Eric Ferkenhoff’s Biography

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National investigative journalist, reporting, editing and teaching all things journalism. Previously, lead criminal justice investigative reporter for Newsweek, Midwest Criminal Justice Reporter for USA TODAY Network. Split my time between Kansas City and Chicago for most of my career, but I moved to North Carolina in 2016, then home to KC in 2020. I have practiced journalism as a reporter, writer and editor, as well as taught as a university instructor, for nearly 30 years.

Eric Ferkenhoff’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Bleeding of Chicago

The Bleeding of Chicago

Ask a cop, physician, or EMT in Chicago about July 4 of last year, and most, if not all, will have a story to…

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AS MURDERS DROP, FEWER CASES SOLVED

AS MURDERS DROP, FEWER CASES SOLVED

Despite a steady decline in murders in Chicago over the past several years, the percentage of cases solved by…

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Two missing sisters. One bizarre note. For 20 years, a family has asked: Where are our girls?

Two missing sisters. One bizarre note. For 20 years, a family has asked: Where are our girls?

We examine the 20-year hunt for answers in the missing Bradley sisters case out of Chicago, and the complicat…

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‘Don’t overlook us’: Slow Amber Alert rollout reflects missing, murdered Indigenous crisis

‘Don’t overlook us’: Slow Amber Alert rollout reflects missing, murdered Indigenous crisis

Ashlynne Mike's 2016 murder sparked lasting changes in Navajo Nation, which had been slow to adopt the Amber …

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Johnny Gosch disappeared 40 years ago — leaving more questions than answers to this day

Johnny Gosch disappeared 40 years ago — leaving more questions than answers to this day

The unsolved case of Johnny Gosch, a West Des Moines paperboy, transformed missing person investigations and …

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Starved to death in an American jail, the man who couldn't pay $100 bail

Starved to death in an American jail, the man who couldn't pay $100 bail

Price, a developmentally disabled and severely mentally ill man, died of malnutrition and dehydration inside …

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Midwest Soybean Farmers Face Financial Struggles Amid Rising Costs

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By Eric Ferkenhoff Verified, Josh Kelety Verified
| Insurance Journal Verified
Strong winds whipped around Doug Bartek, a fifth-generation farmer, as he headed into a grain bin to shovel soybeans onto a conveyor chute. The 60-year-old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues affecting his family’s livelihood at their 2,000-acre farm near Wahoo, Nebraska.
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Midwest Soybean Farmers Face Financial Struggles Amid Rising Costs

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By Eric Ferkenhoff Verified, Josh Kelety Verified
| EIN News
Strong winds whipped around Doug Bartek, a fifth-generation farmer, as he headed into a grain bin to shovel soybeans onto a conveyor chute. The 60-year-old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues affecting his family’s livelihood at their 2,000-acre farm near Wahoo, Nebraska.
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Already under financial pressure, soybean farmers are squeezed further by tariffs, Iran war

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By Eric Ferkenhoff Verified, Josh Kelety Verified
| The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Verified
WAHOO, Neb. — Strong winds whipped around Doug Bartek, a fifth-generation farmer, as he headed into a grain bin to shovel soybeans onto a conveyor chute. The 60 year old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues affecting his family’s livelihood at their 2,000-acre farm near Wahoo, Nebraska. kAm%96 9:89 4@DE @7 7F6=[ 6BF:A>6?E[ 2?5 76CE:=:K6C — 4@>A@F?565 3J E96 xC2? H2C — 2?5 2=D@ E2C:77D[ A6C46:G65 “AC:46 8@F8:?8” 3J DFAA=:6CD[ 2?5 =@H D@J362?
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Making it fast, and often ignorant, meaning journalists have to try harder than ever to sort fact from fiction.