As part of the Nieman Foundation’s Watchdog Journalism Project, Nieman Reports is featuring two articles about watchdog reporting. In the first, Deborah Henley, executive editor of The (Delaware) News Journal, writes about her newspaper’s many years of legal struggles … Read more
To try to prevent newspaper access to computer databases, the Delaware Criminal Justice Information System (DELJIS) has argued that: By using fields to link cases related to a defendant, a criminal history record will be created. That record, along with … Read more
In response to the journalists’ observations, Dan Rothstein described how the process has worked for others who are not so accustomed to asking questions. He reminded reporters of the vital role they play as questioners within our society and of … Read more
At the Nieman Foundation’s fourth Watchdog Project Conference, held in the fall of 2001 at Harvard University, the topic was “How to Ask Probing Questions.” The Watchdog Project was established in 1998 with funds provided by Murrey Marder, a retired … Read more