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How we hired that reporter
A newspaper, a university, an investigative center, and donors find a new way
By Charles Lewis Mar 4, 2013 at 11:57 AM
It was something like a triple bank shot in billiards, but quite a lot more valuable and satisfying. For the... More
Reporting that changed history
A journalist mines the past to inform the future
By Charles Lewis Apr 25, 2012 at 05:19 PM
The Pulitzer season is a time for inspiration and reflection. Inspiration because those and other awards each year remind us... More
Great Expectations
An Investigative News Network is born. Now what?
By Charles Lewis Oct 6, 2009 at 09:04 PM
Call it the Pocantico Declaration. Back on July 1, the leaders of twenty muckraking nonprofit news organizations concluded a three-day... More
A Social-Network Solution
How investigative reporting got back on its feet
By Charles Lewis Mar 25, 2009 at 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... More
The Nonprofit Road
It’s paved not with gold, but with good journalism
By Charles Lewis Sep 13, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Never has there been a greater need for independent, original, credible information about our complex society and the world at... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
