When a leading newspaper editor is fired, troubling signs point to the interference of business and government interests.

Writing a book is like preparing a long newspaper series, only more so. First, I went to the law books to read the two appeals court decisions and then tracked…

By not adhering to government regulations, ‘these newspapers are vulnerable to attack from all sides.’

When coal industry officials and business leaders complain about coverage, ‘the only way to counter such pressures is with good, solid reporting.’

‘Eighty percent of foreign reporting is about getting there.’

Watchdog reporting resides at the core of what journalism does. Its roots dig deeply into the common ground uniting the muckrakers’ unearthing of public and private scandals a century ago…

‘Why has the WMD story been so difficult for the press to investigate and tell?’

The Bangkok Post managed to avoid Prime Minister Thaksin’s wrath “at a time when less august watchdogs within the Thai press were being systematically silenced,” says Philip J. Cunningham, who…

War and Terror“Government has no legitimate claim to sole control of secrecy decisions, even on matters of common defense,” Barton Gellman, a Washington Post project reporter observed when he spoke…

Much of what we have learned, and of what we teach, is included in the book I co-wrote with William Coté of Michigan State University called “Covering Violence: A Guide…