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The Associated Press’s Kathleen Carroll: “You can have it all if you define what it is you want”

Photo by John MinchelloAs executive editor of The Associated Press, Kathleen Carroll oversees a staff of some 2,300 journalists working in more than 100 countries. The news they gather is…

In Korea, Watchdog Journalism Worth Watching on Television

Photo courtesy of SBS“First, I just fainted and vomited, but later it became worse and my whole body was shaking.” That’s what one conscripted policeman told us about the constant…

Do the Right Thing: Watchdog Reporters Handle a Bombing in Philadelphia

Photo by Will Steacy/From the Project “Deadline”At precisely 5:27 p.m. on the afternoon of May 13, 1985, a blue and white Pennsylvania State Police helicopter hovered over a heavily fortified…

Our Communities Crave Watchdog Journalism

Photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Milwaukee Journal SentinelEarly one recent morning I fired off an e-mail to my managing editor, enraged that a story on the front page of our paper reported…

No Profession for Lone Wolves: Watchdog Reporters Need to Work Together

Once upon a time I was feeling rather smug having produced a series of reports that won a few trophies. Me? I’ll crawl across cut glass for a plastic trophy…

Cross-Border Collaboration in Watchdog Journalism

“Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze,” a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), involved about 86 journalists in 46 countries. The investigation started with…

Let the Readers Know: How Journalists and the Public Can Work Together

I’m too young to be nostalgic (says the man who just got his AARP invitation), but here’s a story from the good old days—meaning, seven years ago.I was working with…

From Shoe Leather to Big Data: ProPublica and the Future of Watchdog Journalism

Last year I attended a fascinating conference at Heidelberg University’s Center for American Studies entitled “From Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks: A Transatlantic Conversation on the Public Right to Know.” Several…

Truth or Consequences: Where is Watchdog Journalism Today?

The way South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tells it, what her state needs is more tax cuts and what it doesn’t need is the “public policy nightmare and fiscal disaster…

Stop the Press: Rupert Murdoch, the Leveson Inquiry, and Press Freedom in the U.K.

Photo of Murdoch by Kirsty Wigglesworth/The Assoicated PressOn a late March afternoon in 2002, 13-year-old British schoolgirl Amanda Jane “Milly” Dowler called her dad from her cell phone after school…