From a Mother Jones first-person account of the private prison industry to toxic lead in the Flint, Mich., water system, nonprofit media scored dozens of major investigative stories in 2016, according to the 120-member Institute for Nonprofit News, which compiled this list of the year's best: "Across America over the last year, reporters in nonprofit newsrooms broke thousands of stories while pursuing journalism in the public interest."
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