Although we've been preaching the benefits of collaboration with other news organizations since the Trib launched last November, the one that bore fruit today was not our idea. Credit for the maiden partnership between the Tribune and the Houston Chronicle actually goes to Jeff Cohen, the editor of the Chron, who suggested a couple months back that we pair our reporters on a major investigative project. The indefatigable Emily Ramshaw of the Trib and the Chron's Terri Langford got to work immediately, and the joint project that resulted is one that Jeff and I are enormously proud of ...

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