The irony is that I try to write what I know. So when I started "Inside Out," it was going to be strictly B-plot, but then the dang thing got longer and longer and I needed an A-plot, so I pulled Trick Uno out of the ol' rabbit's hat, aka make the A-plot about journalism, since I don't need to research it, and then I wove in the actual story they were investigating, which was about organ donation.
So I did a lot of Internet resarch and read old stories in my paper's archive on the topic. (For the record, no one in Seattle was stealing them, at least not in anything I read.)
As for nfic, the best research method is simply to have a lot of ... err, never mind.
