Samarth Bansal, Assistant Editor (Data), helped with sourcing relevant data from the mass of numbers generated by various computing departments of governments. It is a fine example of investigative journalism that looked beyond scams and scandals. Investigative journalism can look beyond scams and scandals, as The Hindu’s ‘Last Drop’ series showed. Investigative journalism to these young minds meant stories that expose corruption and wrongdoings by the people holding high office, and subversion of the rule of law. The team scrutinised the current status of water availability in India by combining field-level reportage and macro data.

Source: The Hindu May 15, 2016 13:26 UTC