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Special reports. Investigative Reporting, 2007 Your Courts, Their Secrets Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo and Steve Miletich exposed how the improper sealing of hundreds of lawsuits hid information vital to public safety. Their series resulted in the unsealing of court files and remedies in the judicial system. License to Harm Michael J. Berens, Julia Sommerfeld and Carol Ostrom investigated sexual misconduct by health-care professionals. Public Service, 2004 Coaches Who Prey Christine Willmsen and Maureen O'Hagan revealed sexual misconduct by male coaches who preyed on female students and escaped discipline or prosecution. Investigative Reporting, 2003 The Terrorist Within The staff of The Seattle Times blended investigation and evocative storytelling to show how a footloose Algerian boy evolved into a terrorist. Breaking News Reporting, 2003 The D.C. sniper arrests Investigative Reporting, 2002 Uninformed Consent Breaking News Photography, 2000 WTO photo gallery Explanatory Reporting, 1999 Affirmative Action.

The New NEW Journalism. Final Salute : News : The Rocky Mountain News. Hear the voice of a Marine casualty assistance calls officer - along with behind-the-scenes photos - as he undertakes the most difficult mission of his life. Katherine Cathey was expecting a phone call from her husband, Marine 2nd. Lt. Jim Cathey, so she could tell him if their baby would be a boy or a girl. Instead, she got a knock at the door -- the knock every military family dreads. See additional photos of Maj. Steve Beck and the families of the fallen soldiers.

"Thank you for this wonderful story on this Veterans day. They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. For a year, the Rocky Mountain News has followed Maj. It's all part of a tradition that started in 1775: Never leave a Marine behind. After the knock on the door, the story has only begun. Full story To our readers Though readers are led through the story by the white-gloved hand of Maj. Meet the writer and photographer Recognition. Daniel Golden's Pulitzer Prize-WinningArticles. 2007 Pulitzer Prizes -- Charlie Savage -- The Boston Globe. (By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/4/06) WASHINGTON -- When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his powers as commander in chief.

(By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 3/24/06) WASHINGTON -- When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers. (By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 5/28/06) WASHINGTON -- The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely reviews pieces of legislation before they reach the president's desk, searching for provisions that Cheney believes would infringe on presidential power, according to former White House and Justice Department officials. (By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 7/23/06) (By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 8/27/06) (By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 10/6/06) Supporting material. Extra! Extra! Center for Media and Democracy | Publishers of PR Watch.

The American Independent News Network. Rogue Columnist. Everybody who was anybody in Phoenix has a favorite story about Charles H Keating Jr., who died this week at 90. Here's mine. By the time I came back in 2000, Keating, the disgraced imprisoned former S&L kingpin, was once again a fixture around town. I would run into him at Durant's, where he was cordial but declined my invitation to sit down sometime and tell his story.

One day the restaurant was packed and Keating couldn't get seated. He confronted the day manager, the fabulous Mari Connor, and said, "Do you know who I am? " Without a second's hesitation at a restaurant that had hosted governors and mobsters, Connor said, "No, but I'm sure they can seat you up the street at Alexi's. Time wounds all heels. I was gone from Phoenix during Keating's glory days of the 1980s. The Denver Post. True/Slant. Philadelphia Independent Media Center | Passionate and Accurate Tellings of Truth. 10 Projects that Help Citizens Become Government Watchdogs. With the 2010 U.S. elections coming into view, many people are looking for more information about the people running for office — and the individuals and organizations funding these candidates.

Fortunately, there are dozens of initiatives that mine and share the data that influence policy and policy-makers. Many are funded by The Sunlight Foundation, which aims to use “the revolutionary power of the Internet to make information about Congress and the federal government more meaningfully accessible to citizens.” Below are 10 innovative government transparency projects that employ powerful online databases to make political data accessible (and, in many cases, fun as well). They serve as examples of Public Media 2.0 by providing much-needed intelligence about the relationships between officials, corporations, and policy-makers. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

The above list is by no means exhaustive. Related. Wagist. The Independent | Britain | British News and Information. Seattle PostGlobe | Home. Al Jazeera English - Focus. News - Saturday Extra - Montreal Gazette. News topics, in depth coverage, pictures, video. AltWeeklies.com. Crosscut - News of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. St. Louis Beacon. Wikileaks. 2. Act normal If you are a high-risk source, avoid saying anything or doing anything after submitting which might promote suspicion.

In particular, you should try to stick to your normal routine and behaviour. 3. If you are a high-risk source and the computer you prepared your submission on, or uploaded it from, could subsequently be audited in an investigation, we recommend that you format and dispose of the computer hard drive and any other storage media you used. In particular, hard drives retain data after formatting which may be visible to a digital forensics team and flash media (USB sticks, memory cards and SSD drives) retain data even after a secure erasure. If you do this and are a high-risk source you should make sure there are no traces of the clean-up, since such traces themselves may draw suspicion. 4. If a legal action is brought against you as a result of your submission, there are organisations that may help you.

IRE.  Index. Consumer Reports WebWatch: The leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online. Consumer Reports Web Watch was, until 2009, the Internet integrity division of Consumer Reports. The project was funded by grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. We assisted Consumer Reports’ editorial division in evaluating the credibility of Web sites, we investigated Web sites on behalf of consumers, and we advocated for consumer-focused Internet policy and governance. While ConsumerWebWatch.org is no longer a stand alone website, the work is still being done. Consumer Reports has incorporated the webwatch research role into its regular reports published on ConsumerReports.org. For example, if you want to garner a little privacy on Facebook, this video shows you how.

HearUsNow.org handles advocacy on behalf of internet consumers, covering such issues as web tracking, data mining,and emerging issues around bundled services, “crammed” charges, data overages and much more. Chris Jones. Help Me Investigate.com blog :: Behind the scenes. Depth Reporting. Secrecy News. The number of chronically homeless persons in the U.S. dropped from more than 120,000 in 2008 to around 84,000 in 2014, a new report from the Congressional Research Service notes. The federal government has undertaken to end chronic homelessness by 2017. “One of the reasons that federal programs have devoted resources to ending chronic homelessness […] Read More The national census in 2020 will be the first to rely primarily on the Internet for collecting census data, thereby creating new avenues for fraud and disruption. A new report from the JASON scientific advisory panel describes the problem and outlines some solutions. Why would anyone want to interfere with the constitutionally-mandated census, which maps […] Read More Employees of the U.S. intelligence community are expected to be bold, innovative and imbued with moral courage.

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