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1. November 19, 2012 02:40 PM

   A reporter is fired; colleagues quit in protest

   The Hudson Register-Star reporter refused to include information in his story

   By Peter Sterne

   On November 8, Tom Casey, a reporter at the Hudson Register-Star, a community paper in upstate New York, wrote an article about a city budget meeting. The next day, he was fired. The week after that, nearly half of the newsroom resigned. The story that Casey, 24, wrote contained a lot of interesting information—the proposed budget for 2013 ($11.9 million),...

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2. October 16, 2012 06:50 AM

   Santa Barbara is getting a nonprofit investigative newsroom

   A Knight grant is funding the launch of a new journalism initiative

   By Hazel Sheffield

   A few years ago, a small team of journalists based in Santa Barbara, CA, starting sharing ideas on how address a gap in investigative coverage in their hometown. Now that gap is about to be filled thanks to a two-year, $500,000 matching grant from the Knight Foundation. Next year the Santa Barbara Journalism Initiative will launch the city's first nonprofit,...

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