Why vote for me: “I’ve been a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors for more than 10 years. I believe in IRE’s mission, which is to promote investigative reporting and train the next generation of journalists. I have not only made personal financial contributions to IRE, but have also volunteered my time to help […]
January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2010. That’s about […]
November 5, 2010
Cell phone contracts and the dead. How to deal with cell phone providers and debt collectors.
October 20, 2010
American Journalism Review magazine published a series of stories in September exploring the decline of investigative journalism around the country. I was surprised when I discovered that the writer decided to lead with me on the main story when I had been part of another article, The Withering Watchdog, a PBS series published last year. […]
October 2, 2010
Community News Sites should engage their users, use quickly social media tools, tease out contributors rather than train citizen journalist in advance, according to a new J-Lab report released this week. I found this J-Lab Report, which culled lessons learned from five years of funding community news startups, to be informative and worth reading. If you […]
September 15, 2010
KDMC alums celebrate grants for investigative startups, offer tips on the entrepreneurial journey Michele McLellan writes: As foundations step into a larger role in supporting investigative news, two journalists who left traditional newsrooms in 2009 are helping start new watchdog organizations in 2010. Laura Frank of The Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network and Mc […]
September 15, 2010
Two Florida Center for Investigative Reporting board members, the First Amendment Foundation will host two days of events in the Tampa Bay area focused on government openness and citizen access to public records. FCIR Board Secretary Barbara Petersen, executive director of the First Amendment Foundation, and Board Treasurer Joe Adams, an editorial writer at the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, […]
September 13, 2010
From an Idea to Reality: Producing Investigative Journalism in Florida Last week, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting became the first nonprofit watchdog in the Sunshine state to receive a $100,000 grant from the Oklahoma City-based Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. FCIR is the nation’s first nonprofit, digital and bilingual investigative journalism organization. News of our grant […]
September 6, 2010
I was in Chicago a couple of months ago where I taught several sessions during an Ethnic Media Workshop held by the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization. Mark Horvit, IRE executive director, asked me to talk about multi-tasking and juggling daily work while working on in-depth and watchdog stories. During my years as a beat […]
September 2, 2010
The Web is like the Wild Wild West: what you find is what you get. And because of that factor anybody can steal a journalist’s work and distribute as his/hers own. I don’t know about you but that’s unethical and plain wrong. So how can you stop it or at least be aware of it […]
April 21, 2012
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