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Transparency Increases Credibility

A Web site and television show reveal how investigative journalists do their jobs.

Fund for Investigative Journalism: Practices and Policies

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the fund operates frugally so it can give out as many grants as possible. Its 12-member board of directors, composed of distinguished working journalists who…

When a Few Dollars Make a Big Difference

In 1969, as the Vietnam War raged on, a dogged young reporter named Seymour Hersh thought he was onto something. He had learned that there might have been a massacre…

Universities and Investigative Journalism

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Selling the Iraq War: Unearthing False Advertising

For the first time, five years after the start of the Iraq War, journalists and citizens can view what the most prominent Bush administration officials said publicly, juxtaposed against what…

Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report

‘Without an independent news media, there is no credibly informed citizenry.’

Good Journalism Can Be Good Business

‘Let’s not pull the plug on for-profit journalism just yet.’

Reporting Is Only Part of the Investigative Story

‘In “Billions Over Baghdad,” we knew that simply reporting the costs of the Iraq War in mind-numbing billions wasn’t good enough.’

Reporting With the Tools of Social Science

‘We had put the social scientists on notice that journalists increasingly would be competitors in their field.’

Revealing the Disinformation Industry

RELATED ARTICLE“Digital Journalism: Will It Work for Investigative Journalism?”– Barry SussmanWith complicated stories, a problem for reporters and editors always has been to wade through mounds of disinformation to get…