Kids Won’t Read Investigative Journalism — But Maybe They’ll Play a Videogame With the Same Message

It’s hard enough to get adults to read serious journalism online. Even on its homepage, the Center for Investigative Reporting has “Read This Later” links to let readers save its articles (which sometimes run longer than 3,000 words) to Instapaper or Pocket. But sometimes investigative pieces like the ones found at CIR also pertain to children. To get those same facts across in a kid-friendly format, the nonprofit is rolling out a game, Hairnet Hero, with the help of Coco Studios, an animation studio.