Watchdog

With news audiences moving online, journalists have a vested interest in coverage of this complicated topic

Key to weathering a social storm is understanding that there may be legitimate criticism worth addressing

Extreme weather may be changing attitudes about disaster reporting, making editors and the public more receptive to stories questioning preparedness

When a chemical spill contaminated the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of people in West Virginia in January, Charleston Gazette reporters Ken Ward and David Gutman repeatedly asked the…

ProPublica’s investigation “The Prescribers: Inside the Government’s Drug Data” has provoked a swift response from the federal government. Winner of the 2013 Philip Meyer Award, it exposed the Medicare system’s…

For six years, New York Times national security reporter James Risen has been fighting to keep his promise of anonymity to a source who told him about a failed CIA…

The NSA, surveillance and the threat to press freedom

inewsource grew out of the desperation that was sweeping newsrooms across the country in 2009. I was a senior editor for metro and investigations at The San Diego Union-Tribune, and…

John A. McDermott founded The Chicago Reporter in 1972. Despite his best intentions, the Reporter is still around today.A civil rights activist who stood with the Rev. Martin Luther King…

With society potentially poised to turn the corner on mass incarceration, will news organizations rise to the challenge and increase their coverage? Or do limited resources and a lack of…