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1. Behind the News

   Reporting that changed history

   April 25, 2012 05:19 PM

   The Pulitzer season is a time for inspiration and reflection. Inspiration because those and other awards each year remind us of how important public service reporting is, and also that American news outlets—even those struggling financially—continue to do it. A... Continue reading

2. Feature

   Great Expectations

   October 6, 2009 09:04 PM

   Call it the Pocantico Declaration. Back on July 1, the leaders of twenty muckraking nonprofit news organizations concluded a three-day meeting and produced a document that ended with this proud, hopeful sentence: “We have hereby established, for the first time... Continue reading

3. Feature

   A Social-Network Solution

   March 25, 2009 02:15 PM

   Washington, D.C., 2014—It didn’t seem possible. Who would have thought, amid the newsroom devastation of the first decade of the twenty-first century, that investigative reporting would find a way to not just survive, but flourish, in an improbable, highly... Continue reading

4. Feature

   The Nonprofit Road

   September 13, 2007 09:00 AM

   Never has there been a greater need for independent, original, credible information about our complex society and the world at large. Never has technology better enabled the instantaneous global transmission of pictures, sounds, and words to communicate such reporting.... Continue reading