‘I’ve fallen hard for the country and for its people and ache to go back.
And when I am there, I feel more challenged as a reporter than I’ve felt anywhere else.’ Read more
On this point, editors, reporters and newspaper readers agree. In a time of cutbacks and a shrinking news hole, at a moment when print is in peril and digital is dominant, watchdog and investigative reporting must remain at the core of journalism’s mission. In this third part of our 21st Century Muckrakers project, editors and reporters speak to how metro and regional newspapers are confronting the enormous challenges of today and offer clues to where this kind of reporting will likely be headed tomorrow. —Melissa Ludtke, editor Read more
‘In an age when our critics love to crow that news is an undifferentiated commodity available anywhere, investigative reporting clearly isn’t.’ Read more
In his new book, Anthony Lewis offers a ‘cogent, yet complete
accounting of some of the most searing issues that have faced
journalists over the past decade.’ Read more
‘The finer points of journalism have, regrettably, had to be compromised in the desperate battle for access to information. This is guerrilla journalism ….’ Read more
‘What Mugabe did not want the press to report was how he was using systematic state torture and violence against blacks opposed to his rule.’ Read more