Investigative Journalist in Houston, Texas
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 …
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 …
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Nieman Journalism Lab: More on the Pocantico summit and the Nonprofit Investigative News Network. Members are optimistic but also bring different priorities to the table. “Establishing that network may require navigating tensions between established groups seeking to expand their reach and a new crop of local outfits still …
Laura Frank, a former investigative reporter for the shuttered Rocky Mountain News in Denver, focused her sights on the newspaper industry in this PBS Exposé package, “The Withering Watchdog: What Really Happened to Investigative Reporting in America.” The story features a former colleague of mine, Mc Nelly Torres, an investigative reporter who used to work …
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Poynter: An interview with ProPublica‘s Amanda Michel about an ambitious investigative-reporting project by citizen journalists. Tony Rogers: Seven things the Iranian uprising showed us about citizen journalism. Read more: How to contact an investigative reporter TechTerminal: How the statistics-rich iPhone app for Major League Baseball could be a …
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: The Chris Mathews Show: A panel of journalists including Bob Woodward debate the future of journalism. David Olive: Newspapers are boring themselves to death. Old Media, New Tricks: It doesn’t have to be a battle to the death between old and new media. Related: How to contact an …
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Austin American Statesman: A new Web page of investigative reports. Scottberkun.com: How to detect bullshit. Long post but there’s good information here. One of the best questions you can ask anyone making a claim is, how do you know that? Associated Press: How to do watchdog journalism.
What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Knight Foundation: 25 nonprofit organizations formed an investigative news network, and EveryBlock’s source code is released. Safety Net: Watchdog journalism is suffering as thousands of journalists lose their jobs. Publish or Perish: Now that Twitter is writing the first draft of history, where does that leave journalists? Read …
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. The same week the San Antonio Express-News cut nearly a third of its newsroom, one of Denver’s daily newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News, closed its doors forever. You might ask, as some readers have, so what? Newspapers are far from perfect. But I’ll let Laura Frank, an investigative …