Friday, September 14, 2007

Investigations: Blackwater, Mercs

Jeremy Scahill Exposes US Mercenaries in Blackwater, The Rise of ...
By Anonymous Poster
Prize-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of Democracy Now has written an epic must-read expose of Blackwater, America's largest mercenry corporation.

Investigations: Great Lakes Water Wars

'Water Wars' author to speak at 2007 Clinton River Review
Annin brings a unique perspective and an investigative journalist's eye to this gripping subject. I'm convinced that this year's Clinton River Review will be one of the best ever." The Clinton River is an important natural resource to ...

In the Movies

Festival thriller to tackle War on Terror
Times Online - UK
... who also directs the multilayered thriller about an idealistic professor, an investigative journalist and a hawkish presidential hopeful set against the ...

Awards

MISA HONOURS OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
Jessica Pitchford of the Special Assignment team of the South African Broadcasting Corporation won the John Manyarara Investigative Journalist of the Year ...

Spies & Politkovskaya Case

Room to Maneuver
The Moscow Times - Russia
There was also the strange set of events surrounding the announcement that the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya had been solved. ...

Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
Axis News - USA
... Pavel Ryaguzov is suspected of transfer to murderers of the investigative journalist of the Novaja gazeta Anna Politkovskaya information on her place of ...

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Investigations: Missing Iraq Billions

Billions Over Baghdad: How Did $9B in Cash Airlifted From the Fed ...
By Addict(Addict)
Together they have won two Pulitzer Prizes and two national magazine awards. James Steele, investigative journalist and Vanity Fair contributing editor. Donald Barlett, investigative journalist and Vanity Fair contributing editor. ...

Brad Plays Investigative Journalist - Good One!

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton reunite for remake
By Rob
Pitt will play the investigative journalist who follows the case. The film will be directed by Kevin Macdonald, whose last film The Last King Of Scotland earned Forest Whitaker an Oscar. The original BBC version was a critical and ...

The Investigation of Suds

Beer Man: Raise a toast to a great beer advocate
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
He was a true rarity, combining the experience of an investigative journalist with the heart of a connoisseur. Jackson started writing about beer as a ...

Gongadze Progress Slammed

Journalist's Murder Unsolved in Ukraine
The Associated Press -
... harshly criticized Ukrainian authorities Wednesday for a lack of progress in the inquiry into the murder of an investigative journalist seven years ago. ...

New Trends & Old

The emerging online-only local paper
Media Life Magazine - USA
One must embrace the web, embrace what makes the internet great while preserving what makes investigative journalism so important to a society. ...

User-news sites offer diverse stories, some questionable sources
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... because they had the resources to do so. Said Adelson: "What I wonder about is what is going to happen to investigative journalism."

Fake TV 'sting' rocks India
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
Many people now fear that the fake stings could give professional investigative journalism a bad name. Others are also concerned it may give the government ...

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

"The Imperial Presidency"

Charlie Savage on the Bush administration's efforts to expand ...
By News
Charlie Savage released a new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidential and the Subversion of American Democracy, which The San Francisco Chronicle has characterized as "A masterful work of investigative journalism . ...

Corporate "Reputation Managament"

Companies' online reputations scrubbed clean
By Bob Sullivan
But gaming the system to push company reviews -- including investigative journalism -- out of sight on the Internet takes reputation management to a new level. For its part, Google says reputation management is acceptable as long as ...

From the nternational Freedom of Expression eXchange

IFEX Communique Vol 16 No 37 - 11 September 2007
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
FLIPYS Workshops Address Access to Info and Investigative Journalism in Colombia AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS: 9. Nominations Wanted for Best Free Expression Blog ...

Web Strangeness

Overstock "Black Ops" Part 3: Wikipedia/SlimVirgin Edition
By Scipio(Scipio)
I know a fellow who spent a lot of time briefing an investigative journalist about it all recently. It will make a heck of a sub-plot in the movie someday." Patrick Byrne on 8/7/2006:. "Myself, I love the New Media. ...

Investigators

MacIntyre's Underworld
By admin
Donal MacIntyre is an investigative journalist who makes documentaries about his findings. He first came to prominence as an undercover journalist and received awards for his work on "World in Action" and later had his own series ...

Those Russians

Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
Axis News - USA
... Federal Security Service Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Ryaguzov, reportedly connected with a murder case of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. ...

Investigative Committee Opens Its Doors.
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
Aleksandr Gorshkov, a St. Petersburg-based investigative journalist who writes extensively about law-enforcement issues, says the Investigative Committee ...

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

RIP

Killed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya nominated for EU ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP BRUSSELS, Belgium: Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist and Kremlin critic shot dead last year, was among the candidates for the European ...

Investigative Stories

FBI can't even Google to 'connect the dots' on terror, author says
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
After learning his son was safe, the award winning investigative journalist turned his focus to answering two questions: How did this happen? ...

The top 10 big stories the US news media missed in the past year
By admin
Investigative journalist Robert Parry disagrees. The right of habeas corpus no longer exists for any of us, he wrote in the online journal Consortium. Deep down in the lower sections of the act, the language shifts from the very ...

This Was No Accident: Nuclear Weapons Are Different
By dlindorff
DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based investigative journalist and political columnist. His latest book, co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006, and now available in a paperback ...


New insights revealed on Osama Bin Laden's real Identity
Canadian National Newspaper - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Out of this apparent plan, investigative journalist Alex Jones, and others suggest that bin Laden will be used to justify the instigation of a nuclear war ...

Bloggers

The Cheney Project
By Charlie Savage
The San Francisco Chronicle called the book "a masterful work of investigative journalism" and the conservative columnist George F. Will described the book as "meticulous reporting and lucid explanations of audacious theories invented ...

My New Project, Take 2 [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]
By Ed Brayton none@example.com
They are taking groups of bloggers in each state and giving us serious training in investigative journalism, among other things. Our goal is to cover stories not typically covered and get those stories pushed in to the mainstream media. ...

Monday, September 10, 2007

Jobs: Open & Lost

Democracy Now! | Village Voice Shakeup: Top Investigative ...
Village Voice Shakeup: Top Investigative Journalist Fired, Prize-Winning Writers Resign Following Merger with New Times Media Listen to Segment || Download ...

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST
The Observer is an equal opportunity employer. Minority applicants encouraged to apply. Send letter of interest including salary requirements, resume, and clips to editors@texasobserver.org. SUBJECT: Investigative Journalist ...

Roundup

Sating the cravings of car-bomb junkies
Daily Star - Lebanon - Beirut,Lebanon
... be fascinating to document the international network of militants and hired guns that is inferred to exist, but Davis isn't an investigative journalist. ...

US Astronauts reveal encounters with apparent Extraterrestrials ...
Canadian National Newspaper - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Steve Omar, another investigative journalist and researcher, indicates that J. Allen Hynek (who investigated UFOs for the US Air Force), Major Donald Keyhoe ...

Blogger Riverbend Finally Leaves Iraq and Settles in Syria
By Munir Umrani
As Wikipedia notes, River's "weblog entries were first collected and published as Baghdad Burning, (with a foreword by investigative journalist James Ridgeway), and Baghdad Burning II, (also with an introduction by James Ridgeway and ...

In Books

New Books Criticize Expanded Executive Power
By News
... Savage also released a new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidential and the Subversion of American Democracy, which The San Francisco Chronicle has characterized as "A masterful work of investigative journalism . ...

International News

Media support organization maintains assistance for Macedonian ...
International Journalist's Network - USA
Both groups will participate in modules on investigative journalism, computer assisted reporting and multimedia. The trainers for the program are well-known ...

Angola: Angolan Woman Joins Investigative Journalists Forum Board
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The forum is a professional association that gathers African journalists working in the area of investigative journalism.

On Video

What are the top investigative journalism video series online?
Who is doing great investigative journalism in video on the web? Ispent some time looking, and asking other people for their favorites.Here's the best projects that I've found so far and info on how theypay their bills. Will it work?

The best investigative journalism in video on the web and how it ...
By Marshall
Who else is doing great investigative journalism in video on the web? I spent a fair chunk of time looking, and asking other people, for their favorites. Here's the best projects that I've found so far. Please leave more in comments so ...