A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN

Network to codify its standards and practices

By Craig Silverman   Jan 27, 2011 at 02:34 PM

In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football... More

Audit Notes: Up Next For Wikileaks: The Banks, Forbes, Gaming Google

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 29, 2010 at 07:19 PM

Julian Assange is Forbes's cover boy this week. No surprise there. He just turned the diplomatic community on its head... More

Best of 2010: Clint Hendler

Hendler picks his top stories from 2010

By Clint Hendler   Dec 31, 2010 at 11:39 AM

No Handouts: The administration has denied independent photographers access to historic White House events that could easily be made public,... More

Best of 2010: The Observatory

Curtis Brainard picks the top stories from 2010

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 29, 2010 at 01:11 PM

1. “New” Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake With standard telephone, radio, and television communications disabled, “new” media platforms... More

Bloomberg Ferrets Out New Details on the Fed’s Bailouts

By Ryan Chittum   May 26, 2011 at 01:43 PM

There were so many bailouts going on in 2008 that Congress apparently forgot about some of them. Bloomberg gets a... More

CJR Event: Science News and Government Transparency

Access denied

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 3, 2011 at 11:03 AM

Has the Obama administration lived up to its promise to make science more transparent and accessible to the public? An... More

Know Your Journalists

New transparency website compiles personal data on reporters

By Craig Silverman   Nov 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM

In 2006 Adrian Holovaty, then a programmer and journalist of some reputation, wrote a blog post entitled, “A fundamental way... More

Matt Taibbi vs. the SEC

Rolling Stone gets no credit from most of the press for a huge scoop

By Felix Salmon   Aug 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM

Matt Taibbi’s 5,000-word exposé of the SEC’s document-shredding is a magnificent piece of journalism, and is the first and last... More

Q & A: Lucy Dalglish and Jennifer Lynch

Two open government experts talk about the year’s top FOIA issues

By Erin Siegal   Apr 9, 2012 at 01:13 PM

The FOIA Watchdog chats with Lucy Dalglish, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Jennifer Lynch,... More

Q&A: Michael Morisy, Co-Founder of MuckRock

On helping journalists with their public records requests

By Erin Siegal   Feb 13, 2012 at 02:46 PM

MuckRock is an online startup that helps journalists streamline, track, and fulfill their public records requests. Since May 2010, when... More

The WSJ Flags an Accounting Trick on Private Pensions

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 10, 2011 at 03:25 PM

The Wall Street Journal had an excellent story yesterday on how major companies are playing around with their pension accounting... More

The Chamber of Commerce, Front for Hated Industries

Bloomberg reveals health insurers gave $86 million to oppose Obama’s reform plan

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 18, 2010 at 05:21 PM

Bloomberg gets a great scoop on the Chamber of Commerce, reporting that the health-insurance industry gave the secretive nonprofit a... More

The Muzzling of the FDA

How government press officers stole our freedom

By Jim Dickinson   Dec 6, 2010 at 03:50 PM

It is 1978. I have just been refused admission to a Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association section meeting that is to... More

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Shouldn’t TV news outlets be clearer about offering pay-for-play?

By Steven Waldman   Dec 29, 2011 at 08:10 PM

One of the most disturbing trends in local TV news is the persistence of “pay for play”—when local TV newscasts... More

To Sue or Not to Sue?

The first two years of OGIS

By Erin Siegal   Feb 1, 2012 at 12:37 PM

Last June in Las Vegas, Corinna Zarek told a ballroom full of investigative journalists at the annual Investigative Reporters and... More

Unopen to Failure

Openness and transparency will help news sites survive

By Justin D. Martin   Dec 13, 2010 at 01:03 PM

CAIRO—Isolation begets trouble. Myanmar and North Korea are isolated failures. Unvisited shut-ins die earlier than those with frequent human contact.... More

WikiLeaks A Blunt Weapon, But We Should Use It

A defense of the organization under new attack

By Joel Meares   Dec 2, 2010 at 10:20 AM

Many of the charges behind the “hang Julian Assange” meme doing the rounds since WikiLeaks’s third “megaleak” on Sunday hinge... More