Students will launch the Bally’s Chicago casino investigation by studying the Tangle model, testing neutral reporting moves, and drafting the first artifacts that frame the problem, audience, and lines of inquiry for a balanced reporting project.

Students will investigate the Bally’s Chicago casino debate by gathering stakeholder perspectives, evaluating source credibility, analyzing cause-and-effect patterns, and developing an evidence-based proposal for how to report the issue fairly and transparently.

Students will use their research, interviews, field observations, and source evaluations to design a Tangle-style Chicago casino podcast segment and briefing dossier. They will study effective models, make a testable prediction about what will make their reporting clear and balanced, plan their production process, build a first version, exchange peer feedback with two peers, and document revisions in a development report.

Students will test their Tangle-style reporting package with a live listening protocol, collect audience response data, and analyze whether their casino coverage is clear, credible, balanced, and ready for public sharing.

Students will present their Tangle-style reporting work to an authentic Chicago audience, answer questions about evidence and tradeoffs in the Bally’s casino debate, and document how their thinking, communication, and investigative habits developed across the project.