Sarah Larimer
Aug. 15, 2012
12:12 pm
Before we get going, I should probably explain what I’m doing here. In a previous life, I covered local politics and crime in D.C., a job I enjoyed for myriad reasons. The District of Columbia is a complex and wonderful … Read more
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Steve Myers
Aug. 2, 2012
12:09 pm
TechCrunch | Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting will curate "The I-Files," a new YouTube channel featuring investigative videos from partners such as Al Jazeera, The New York Times, and the 60 nonprofit news organizations that make up the
Investigative News Network.
“The launch of the new investigative YouTube channel, The I Files, in association with INN, reflects CIR's belief that collaboration and partnership are crucial to the sustainability of investigative, public service journalism,” said Robert J. Rosenthal, executive director of CIR. “There is enormous potential in finding new audiences to magnify the impact of all of the partners participating in The I Files.”
PEJ recently
did a study of YouTube's role in news consumption, writing:
The data reveal that a complex, symbiotic relationship has developed between citizens and news organizations on YouTube, a relationship that comes close to the continuous journalistic "dialogue" many observers predicted would become the new journalism online. Citizens are creating their own videos about news and posting them. They are also actively sharing news videos produced by journalism professionals. And news organizations are taking advantage of citizen content and incorporating it into their journalism. Consumers, in turn, seem to be embracing the interplay in what they watch and share, creating a new kind of television news.
The Knight Foundation is providing $800,000 for the project.
To foster video-based student investigative reporting, CIR is holding a contest in which the public will vote on the top 10 videos. The winner will receive $2,500.
Related: News events occasionally outpace entertainment on YouTube
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Steve Myers
May 15, 2012
1:04 pm
Center for Investigative Reporting
Last week's
memo announcing Susanne Reber's departure from NPR, where she was deputy managing editor for investigations, didn't say where she was headed. Tuesday, the Center for Investigative Reporting announced that Reber has been named senior coordinating editor for multiplatform projects and investigations. She'll oversee its national, international and enterprise projects and will be in charge of its health and environment reporters.
The release from the Center for Investigative Reporting:
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Steve Myers
May 10, 2012
3:22 pm
Margaret Low Smith, NPR's senior VP for news, told staff on Tuesday that
Susanne Reber, deputy managing editor of investigations, is leaving NPR. The memo doesn't say where she is headed. After praising Reber's work, Smith writes, "We remain fully committed to investigative reporting at NPR."
The memo:
From: Margaret Low Smith
Sent: 08 May 2012 12:44
To: News-All Staff
Subject: A departure
Dear All,
I want to let you know about a departure. Susanne Reber, our Deputy Managing Editor of Investigations, is leaving NPR this week. In a little more than two years she built a first class team, led the coverage of many important stories and established strong collaborations with other non-profit news organizations including ProPublica, Center for Public Integrity and Frontline. (more...)
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 29, 2012
12:10 pm
City Pages
Minneapolis-St. Paul television reporter Jennifer Griswold had a hot story in early 2009: Cheryl Blaha had come to the station claiming that Susan Anderson, a naturopath, had told her to get off an anti-anxiety drug, which led Blaha to threaten suicide. Griswold stormed onto Anderson's ranch, camera in tow, demanding answers. Anderson told the reporter she couldn't talk about her former patient unless she signed a waiver. The station began airing promos for the story and interviewed Anderson hours before the broadcast, and only after a lawyer friend protested. And, as it turned out, Blaha's story wasn't supported by her medical records.
Last November, a jury
awarded Anderson $1 million, the largest defamation judgment in Minnesota history. City Pages' Gregory Pratt
lays out how the station earned that distinction, including Blaha's bizarre deposition and Griswold's testimony that the story was accurate. Anderson's attorney, Pat Tierney, ties the story's production and packaging to what Pratt characterizes as a "broader problem with television news":
"Every time you watch an investigative report nowadays they try to get the same video clip of the person running away from the camera, ducking, not wanting to be interviewed," Tierney says. "It all makes for great TV, but are those reporters trying to get to the truth, trying to find out what really happened? I don't think that's how you do it."
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Jeremy Gilbert
Sep. 23, 2011
7:43 am
Game stories don’t shake the sporting world. Stories of forced coaching changes, player misconduct, agent malfeasance and cheating of all kinds shock sports fans, drive ratings and win the biggest headlines.
But this kind of reporting comes with different challenges … Read more
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Jim Romenesko
May 23, 2011
2:38 pm
Romenesko Misc.
The George Polk Grants for Investigative Reporting -- underwritten by a grant from the Ford Foundation -- program will provide grants ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 to experienced print and broadcast reporters who have been laid off. "We’re looking for the seasoned veterans who know where the bodies are buried and how to go about digging them up,” says George Polk Awards curator
John Darnton. “All they need is a little funding to get going." ||
Apply here. || Details after the jump.
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Jim Romenesko
May 3, 2011
8:04 am
Romenesko Misc.
iWatch News focuses on money and politics; government waste, fraud and abuse; the environment; financial reform; health care; international investigations, national security; and state government accountability. "Quality investigative reporting is increasingly rare,” says Center for Public Integrity executive director
William E. Buzenberg. “We’ve created a destination news site for readers who want unbiased, fact-based investigative journalism in the public interest.”
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Steve Myers
Apr. 19, 2011
12:24 pm
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Steve Myers
Apr. 19, 2011
9:01 am
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