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

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…

‘President Bush was obsessed from the beginning of his administration with what he regarded as unjustified intrusions by the press.’

On a soggy December morning, a hillside above a busy Oregon highway gave way, and a torrent of mud, rock and trees buried the road, destroyed homes, and smashed cars.…

‘Watchdog work is not just about projects; it’s about an approach to beat coverage that should be reflected in daily and longer-form work.’

‘… investigative reporting itself is also on the cusp of major transformation ….’

The 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting was awarded to the staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service, “with notable work by Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer,”…

After his newspaper story exposed the CIA’s reliance on a con man to determine if Iraq had WMD, a journalist dug deeper to unravel the mystery.

When a decade of conflict ended, ‘what many Nepali journalists did not anticipate was that the worst had yet to come.’

‘… it remains the job of journalists to do more than report the “stuff” that happens or bring to the public the “first rough draft of history.”’