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‘Big news projects on the campaign are still conceived in The Washington Post's newsroom as traditional newspaper stories.’

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

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

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For local TV news, a difficulty will come in figuring out how to make watchdog reporting stand out in a digital world.

The Nieman Watchdog Project’s editor explores what might be missing and what might be found as journalists turn to the Web to assist in reporting.

I think he has a point. I think television and streaming video can give citizens a window into public meetings and the sausage-making of governance. But gavel-to-gavel camera work is…

Citizen journalism is here to stay. But in the rush to embrace new media we risk destroying the soul of traditional reporting.