SNS Global: WSJ Reporters Leave To Form Investigative Company

Politico:

Wall Street Journal reporters Sue Schmidt and Glenn Simpson are leaving the paper to launch a new company where they'll do investigative work for private clients.

In addition to the new company, SNS Global LLC, the two top journalists will also be affiliated with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, a non-profit foundation focused on security issues. (Former Washington Post investigative reporter Douglas Farah, who'd covered the Columbian drug war and African blood diamonds, is also at the IASC).

Schmidt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who only joined the paper last year from the Post, told POLITICO that she and Simpson are "sort of shifting gears." However, she said, they'll still be investigating areas they covered while doing traditional journalism--everything from counter-terrorism to international organized crime.

Read the whole story: Politico

Comments

[KayWrites]

01:39 PM on 03/24/2009

This is actually a good idea. It's like Reuters and AP, but for investigative stories. Hope the news web sites and newspapers (what's left of them) pick up on the idea. Shared expenses for investigative stories could save in-depth reporting. It's one thing to break a story. It's another to follow it up and follow it through. Without investigative stories we would never have found out the significance of the Watergate break-ins, or what really happened to Valerie Plame and the false propaganda used by Bush to push us into war.

[JScott]

12:44 PM on 03/24/2009

See Rupert you messed up the WSJ and this is what happens......GET A CLUE!!!!!

[Bankenstein]

10:38 AM on 03/24/2009

I never thought anyone could successfully use the words "Wall Street Journal" and "investigative" in the same sentence!!!

[JScott]

12:45 PM on 03/24/2009

and it's investigative because the journalists that want to do that are leaving the WSJ.