Photo courtesy of SBS “First, I just fainted and vomited, but later it became worse and my whole body was shaking.” That’s what one conscripted policeman … Read more
Photo by Will Steacy/From the Project “Deadline” At precisely 5:27 p.m. on the afternoon of May 13, 1985, a blue and white Pennsylvania State Police … Read more
Photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Early one recent morning I fired off an e-mail to my managing editor, enraged that a story on the front … Read more
“Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze,” a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), involved about 86 journalists in 46 countries. The investigation started with a hoard of 2.5 million secret files related … Read more
Last year I attended a fascinating conference at Heidelberg University’s Center for American Studies entitled “From Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks: A Transatlantic Conversation on the Public Right to Know.” Several of … Read more
There is a thirst for investigative journalism in the great American traditions of the late I.F. Stone and Murrey Marder, but around the news industry the question asked is always the same: Who will pay for it? Start with that … Read more
The way South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tells it, what her state needs is more tax cuts and what it doesn’t need is the “public policy nightmare and fiscal disaster that is … Read more