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Trivial Pursuit: It Happens Too Often in Political Coverage

‘… some of the worst features of campaign reporting emanate from the kinds of psychological defenses that reporters erect to deal with their insecurities.’
June 15, 2008

Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth

‘Through our Truth-O-Meter, we graphically show the relative truth of each claim.’
June 15, 2008

Political Journalists — Writing for Online Publications

Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post has quickly become one of the more successful news and information blog sites, recognized in 2007 that if her army of volunteer bloggers were to…
June 15, 2008

The Jigs and Jags of Digital Political Coverage

Since it emerged, the online world has been a source of trepidation for journalists. The American Journalism Review captured the foreboding in its 1999 article, “Navigating a Minefield.”There have been…
June 15, 2008

Transparency Increases Credibility

A Web site and television show reveal how investigative journalists do their jobs.
March 15, 2008

Fund for Investigative Journalism: Practices and Policies

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the fund operates frugally so it can give out as many grants as possible. Its 12-member board of directors, composed of distinguished working journalists who…
March 15, 2008

When a Few Dollars Make a Big Difference

In 1969, as the Vietnam War raged on, a dogged young reporter named Seymour Hersh thought he was onto something. He had learned that there might have been a massacre…
March 15, 2008

Universities and Investigative Journalism

RELATED ARTICLES“Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report” – Charles Lewis“Watchdog Reporting: Exploring Its Myth”– Florence Graves“Squeezing Substance…
March 15, 2008

Selling the Iraq War: Unearthing False Advertising

For the first time, five years after the start of the Iraq War, journalists and citizens can view what the most prominent Bush administration officials said publicly, juxtaposed against what…
March 15, 2008

Seeking New Ways to Nurture the Capacity to Report

‘Without an independent news media, there is no credibly informed citizenry.’
March 15, 2008