Jim has spent his life conducting investigations and training investigators.

Jim began as an investigative reporter. For more than 15 years, he has been an adjunct professor of investigative reporting at the Columbia Journalism School.

He is retired from Mintz Group, a global investigation company he founded in 1994.

Jim, along with Hannah Mintz, Jack Mintz, and Deborah Stewart, created the Dig Lab Foundation in 2015. Since then, DigLab has worked with community investigators and non-profits from all over the world through training, mentoring, and curriculum-building.