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Sunday, January 17, 2010

New style investigative journalism

Have any/all of you read this article in Sunday's Olympian? If not, I recommend it.

http://www.theolympian.com/business/wire/story/1104883.html

Can newspaper muckraking carry on in nonprofits?


One of the new-style journalistic endeavors mentioned in the above article is InvestigateWest (http://invw.org/about/), headquartered in Seattle. If you want to support this 501(c)3 non-profit organization, go to its membership page: http://invw.org/membership/ "... All members will receive our quarterly updates, an invitation to participate in a monthly conference call with InvestigateWest journalists, and inclusion in a password-protected members discussion forum to on [sic] important topics at the top of today’s news agenda. ..." I would call that putting our money where our mouths are.

1 comment:

Kardnos said...

Damn.....jam it up the newspapers rear ends!!!

When I started my career in 1970, the reporters were REQUIRED to work a story. I happened to be lucky enough to watch from the middle while the News Tribune disassembled a local mafia that included the county sheriff.

What I see today is mostly embarrassing.