Eric Ferkenhoff Email & Phone Number

Kansas City

Part of a national investigations team doing public service journalism for Lee Enterprises, which owns papers throughout the country.

Kansas City

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Covering mostly enterprise and investigative stories around the areas of juvenile and adult criminal justice, as well as federal law enforcement that impacts the Plains region. In this role, I do quick and long-term projects.

Greater Chicago Area

Work with the founder, Darnell Little, on investigations, including on criminal justice.

United States

Managing Editor of the leading fact-checking organization. In this position, I manage a team of about 15 reporters that, among other things, fact check politicians, businesspeople, clergy, doctors and others who allege things that could cause harm to people through bad advice or injure people financially. We also do analytical and investigative pieces that.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Covering juvenile justice out of North Carolina (formerly out of Chicago) for a leading youth justice site based outside Atlanta at Kennesaw State University. Of particular interest is the Raise the Age movement and studying laws that impact the system and the minors they are supposed to protect.

United States

I teach everything from introductory to community, advanced and specialized reporting. I also am editor of a new effort to bring news to what was considered a news desert in Chatham County, North Carolina. In addition, I edit the pilot UNC FactCheck initiative under the Media and Journalism School's Media Hub effort.

Greater Chicago Area

Taught or co-taught classes ranging from intro to enterprise and investigative and multimedia. Also served four years as the school's managing editor as part of the News21 national program, a Carnegie-Knight Initiative.

Midwest

Covered nearly every subject for a variety of publications both before and during my time at Medill at ABC-Chicago and Northwestern University.

Chicago

Covered courts, including the downfall of two Illinois governors, and helped with general coverage and investigations.

Greater Chicago Area

Criminal Justice Reporter/Chicago Police and statewide/federal departmentsWrote and examined stories that ran from everyday mayhem to more in-depth looks at racial balance in the department, murder clearance rates, mass and spree murders, the death penalty and access to DNA databases. As such, I was a Contributor to WGN TV and CLTV, making appearances on.

Greater Chicago Area

Wrote and edited for the storied news wire service, where I covered criminal justice, education, transportation and other beats before moving to the Chicago Tribune. Also wrote and edited for broadcast.