Investigative Reporting

Judge: Student Journalists' Emails Must Be Shared

Posted 11.07.2011

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A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that Northwestern University must turn over some 500 e-mails that student journalists at the school exchanged with...

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NPR, PBS Put Millions Into Investigative Reporting

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — NPR, PBS and local public broadcast stations around the country are hiring more journalists and pumping millions of dollars into in...

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Red Lenses on a Rainbow of Revolutions

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cognitive Policy Works, Color Revolutions, Media, Journalistic Integrity, Journalism, Iran, Democracy Movements, Reporters, Civil Resistance, Repression, Cognitive Psychology, Framing, Frames, Bbc, Media Techniques, George Lakoff, Democracy, Green Revolution, Democracy Struggle, Nonviolent Struggle, Metaphor, Reporting, Journalism Norms, Aung San Suu Kyi, W. Lance Bennett, Nonviolence, Cnn, Media Framing, Burma, Saffron Revolution, Nonviolent Action, Media Bias, Investigative Reporting, Media News
Cynthia Boaz

Reposted from OpenDemocracy.net, series on Civil Resistance and the New Global Ferment Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San S...

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Digging Deep: A Treasury of Books About Journalism

Michael W. Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ida Tarbel, Standard Oil, Enron, George W. Bush, David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, News Media, JFK Assassination, James Phelan, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, John D. Rockefeller, Muckraking, Vietnam, State of the News Media, Jessica Mitford, Peter Arnett, Watergate, Clark Mollenhoff, Nixon, Woodward and Bernstein, Censorship, Investigative Reporting, Nixonburgers, Center for Public Integrity, Bob Woodward, Media News
Michael W. Hudson

With the struggles of many old-line news media, it's easy to forget how important real reporting is to informing citizens and defeating the forces of secrecy and propaganda.

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We Need Your Help to Investigate Private Label and Generic Foods

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Generic Food, Amy Westervelt, Investigative Journalism, Faster Times, Private Label, Investigative Reporting, Columbia Journalism Review, Trader Joe's, Food, Wal-Mart, Green News
Nathan Hegedus

Most of us eat private label food, buying that cheap Wal-Mart-brand organic milk or Trader Joe's coffee. Unfortunately, what makes such items inexpensive is exactly what makes them problematic.

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Investigative Reporting Increasingly Outsourced To Nonprofits

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nonprofit Journalism, Investigative Journalism, Center for Public Integrity, Investigative Reporting, Media News

Investigative reporting is increasingly being outsourced, and these offices off K Street serve as a boiler room for research that the big boys are les...

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'Pulitzer's Gold': The Irreplaceable Role Of Investigative Journalism

James B. Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon Papers, Jim Steele, Pulitzers Gold, Watergate, Roy Harris, Literary Prizes, Future of Journalism, Media, Pulitzer, Ponzi, Journalism, Synanon, Investigative Reporting, Books News
James B. Steele

Nobody knows what the future holds for print, but Harris has given us a book that will inspire journalists to pursue public service journalism in whatever format it takes.

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Climate Lobby Investigation Goes Global — and Digital

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Journalism, Digital Media, Twitter, Corporate Globalization, Climate Lobby, Lobbyists, Climate Change, Environment, Globalization, New Media, Investigative Journalism, Media, Corporate Greed, International Reporting, Facebook, Investigative Reporting, Green News
Tracy L. Barnett

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.

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Citizen Journalism is Simply Not Enough

Chris Prevatt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Non-Profit Journalism, Ideology, Right-Wing Media Bias, Citizen Journalism, Orange County Register, A New Page, Assemblyman Van Tran, Investigative Reporting, Norberto Santana Jr. Norberto Santana, Quachgate, Ocweekly, Media News
Chris Prevatt

Despite our best efforts, bloggers just don't have enough resources to meet the need for full time investigative reporting.

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A Historic Meeting: Plotting The Future Of Investigative Journalism

Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcus Baram

It's a difficult time to be an investigative journalist, so I didn't expect much optimism when I attended a conference that brought together nearly all the major nonprofit investigate groups in the country.

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Torture is Not About "Winning the Afternoon," OK?

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Journalists, Bush Administration Torture, Journalism Ethics, Barack Obama Torture, The Politico, Shepard Smith, New York Times, Bybee Impeachment, Barack Obama, David Broder, Investigative Reporting, Torture, Media News
Will Bunch

The torture issue doesn't lend itself to cute little "up" and "down" arrows, to dueling cable shouters "on the right" and "on the left," to all the little devices we in the media use.

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HuffPost Finally Liberates Journalism with Investigative Fund

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Francis

The notion of independent financing of truly investigative journalistic projects is a grand idea. It means that strings are not attached and that efforts are judged by results on a case by case basis.

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Journalism 'Had About Enough' of All This '@#$%&'

Rip Empson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rip Empson

Of late, the traditional media in which Journalism presents itself has been suffering from what some would call a lack of 'identifiable revenue streams' and may soon be forced into early retirement.

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The Perfect Test That the Chicago Tribune Failed

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Perfect Storm, Newspapers, Tribune Company, Bankruptcy, Editorial Writing, Liberals, Economy, Ann Marie Lipinski, Newspaper Advertising, Trivia, Journalism, Fourth Branch of Government, Pulitzer Prize, Creators Syndicate, Joanne Lipman, Conservatives, Chris Hedges, Political Debates, Rupert Murdoch, Los Angeles Times, Timothy McNulty, Chicago Tribune, Sam Zell, Investigative Reporting, Media News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

Over his long business career, Sam Zell has undoubtedly many times smirked at those who have reported failures whilst claiming, "It was not my fault." Now, Zell may well be smirking into the mirror.

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Did The Chicago Tribune Spoil Fitzgerald's Blagojevich Investigation?

Wall Street Journal | Cam Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald ordered the FBI to arrest Rod Blagojevich before sunrise Tuesday in order to stop a cr...

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Blagojevich Scandal Justifies Investigative Journalism: David Carr

New York Times | David Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the last few years, newspapers have been smacked around for lacking relevance, but the industry has finally found a compelling spokesman: Rod R. B...

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In or Out of the Debates, the Need to Know: or, as Senator McCain says, "How About That Sarah?"

Jessica Catto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Threats Against Obama, Palin's Dishonesty, People's Right to Know the Candidate, Palin, Sarah Palin, Investigative Reporting, Politics News
Jessica Catto

The governor of Alaska wants us all to know with whom Obama "pals around." By any standard of fairness, we should know a bit more about the governor. Who were her friends? What did they believe?

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