San Diego Mayor Bob Filner resigned in August, after several women came forward with allegations of sexual harassment. KPBS broke the story and led the coverage as it unfolded over several weeks, reporting on the defiant mayor and the growing calls for his resignation. KPBS created a “Filner Files” web page to collect their coverage and built an interactive timeline to put the story in context. Their hard work paid off: five KPBS stories about Filner made the Digital Services top 20 list of stories for the month of July. Those 5 stories alone received more than 161,000 pageviews.

via ds.npr.org

I’m really proud of my colleagues on the news team at KPBS. And I’m glad to see this NPR piece acknowledging that long-term investment we made in investigative reporting. Boy did it pay off in the Filner coverage!