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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
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
