Investigative Journalist in Houston, Texas
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Glenn Greenwald: Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did. The Changing Newsroom: Cronkite’s spirit still lives. Tony Rogers: Talking Points Memo: An influential politics blog that also does investigative reporting. Jonathon Narvey: Breaking News! New Media depends on Old Media.
Jen and I received an invite on Facebook to help out Marissa Villa, a former reporter for the Express-News’ Hispanic publication Conexion who was laid off earlier this year. The guy who organized the fundraiser for Marissa was former Express-News Business Writer Travis Poling, who also left the paper. Travis is a beer connoisseur. When …
Express-News Reporter Scott Huddleston has written a story that reveals how some caretakers of the Alamo are splitting from the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the nonprofit organization that oversees the historic mission in San Antonio: Tensions within the group running the Alamo have fueled an unprecedented schism, casting uncertainty on the future of …
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: The New York Times: Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith is stepping down to edit a nonprofit news site, the Texas Tribune. NPR: What investigative reporters are doing after they leave journalism. Related: Contact an investigative reporter confidentially Mashable: “Crowdfunding” might be the future of journalism. Center for American …
Interesting video from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Among those interviewed was Trent Seibert, an editor with Texas Watchdog.
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Huffington Post: Richard Sine asks, what’s the point of going to journalism school? “Journalism is not a profession like engineering, medicine or even law. You can pick up most media skills on the job, or with a few hours of instruction. If you screw up, nobody dies.” One …
Reporters Todd Bensman and Guillermo Contreras, my colleagues on the special projects team at the San Antonio Express-News, won an award from the National Press Club for their series of stories about gunrunning to Mexico called Texas’ Deadliest Export. According to the press club: Related: Call an investigative reporter in Houston, Texas “Reporters Todd Bensman …
Gotta love this letter to the editor by engineer Wendell Peters published today in the San Antonio Express-News: After an explosion at one of our power plants, CPS Energy urged us to conserve power. I was curious to see how much power is used by the digital billboards gracing our highways. The CPS meter is …
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Related: How to contact a news reporter in Texas Outside Looking Back: Interesting interview with Karen Dorn Steele, a longtime investigative reporter from my hometown of Spokane, Wash. Karen took a buyout from the Spokesman-Review. She looks back at conflicts she had with the family that owned the …
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Nieman Watchdog: Alex Byers blogs about DocumentCloud, a joint project by the New York Times and ProPublica. Users will be able to upload a treasure trove of documents that can be searched in creative ways by the public. “We want to take all these documents that all these …