Articles

Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report

‘Without an independent news media, there is no credibly informed citizenry.’
March 15, 2008
Charles Lewis

Good Journalism Can Be Good Business

‘Let’s not pull the plug on for-profit journalism just yet.’
March 15, 2008
Daniel Brogan

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.’
March 15, 2008
Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

Reporting With the Tools of Social Science

‘We had put the social scientists on notice that journalists increasingly would be competitors in their field.’
March 15, 2008
Stephen K. Doig

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…
March 15, 2008
Barry Sussman

Letter to the Editor

March 15, 2008
Vince Crunk

Publisher, Editor and Reporter

Looking back to the early 1900’s—to Ida Tarbell and S.S. McClure—offers valuable lessons for watchdog journalism in the 21st century.
March 15, 2008
Steve Weinberg

The Press and the Presidency

‘President Bush was obsessed from the beginning of his administration with what he regarded as unjustified intrusions by the press.’
March 15, 2008
Murrey Marder

Publisher, Editor and Reporter: The Investigative Formula

Looking back to the early 1900’s—to Ida Tarbell and S.S. McClure—offers valuable lessons for watchdog journalism in the 21st century.
March 15, 2008
Steve Weinberg

Watchdog Photo Gallery

Our visual journey moves from the late 19th and early 20th century muckraking era to the Watergate coverage of the early 1970’s, which swept into newsrooms a wave of young…
March 15, 2008