Brad Racino: Investigative Journalism & Multimedia
 
Bob Filner calls report inaccurate, we respond
Congressman Filner referred to my recent article on his missteps as “inaccurate,” and called me a “so-called investigative reporter.” Here’s further proof that he’s wrong.
 
San Diego's Filner Missing the Boat on the Port
Despite making the Port of San Diego a centerpiece of his mayoral campaign, Congressman Bob Filner’s knowledge of it is fraught with inaccuracies.

—A special Investigative Newsource & KPBS piece for radio, television and print

 
My Mother's Birthday

Today is Debra’s birthday. She is wonderful.

 
"Insulting and Offensive"

A former Naval officer and Vietnam veteran finds it “insulting and offensive” that I called him at home. Thoughts?

Mar 302012
 
What I Do

Last week, over a beautiful Italian dinner in a La Jolla restaurant, my girlfriend paused while raising her wine glass and said something along the lines of, “when the hell did you work with babies?” This sparked a long storytelling session in which I tried my best to recall most of my strange adult life.  This conversation has been broached in the past, although I’ve never felt a close enough [...]

 
Twist: A Visual Diary of Six Weeks

In chronological order, this is what the last six weeks of my life would look like if I spoke only in photographs and video:  

Mar 042012
 
BestTexts

I have amassed far too many screenshots of funny text messages I’ve received over the last year or so.  I’m now going to share them, one at a time.  This is my version of texts from Bennett, except all my friends are Bennetts. I’ll put them all on this page in the future.

 
February 2012 Life Update

Watch, I’ll do four months real fast-like: October 2011 Rufo came to visit, saw a last-minute-finish to a story I had worked long and hard on.  It involved following around a guy named Matthew Akins, who at 22 years old, was already fed up by local law enforcement, and decided to do something about it.  The story is here, the photos here and the video here.  The end of October [...]

 
A well-done investigative piece

by Andrew Mach, The Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 30, 2011: It wasn’t long after officials linked a listeria outbreak with cantaloupe from a Colorado farm that wrongful-death and personal-injury lawsuits began to be filed. The outbreak, which is the deadliest food crisis in more than a decade, has killed at least 15 people and sickened 84 others in 19 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta…  read more here.

 
The Columbia Courthouse - Prejudice against Motorcycle Magicians

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