Friday, November 9, 2007

Iraq snapshot
By Common Ills(Common Ills)
... remember that Robert Parry has been doing investigative journalism for years and, if you're in that area or are visting it on the 19th, you'll have access to one of the most straighforward and determined journalists in this country. ...
The Common Ills - http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/

Chauncey Bailey Project awarded $20000 from SDX
By SonyaSmith
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Sigma Delta Chi Foundation of the Society of Professional Journalists approved a $20000 grant to help launch a collaborative investigative journalism project to continue the work of murdered Oakland Post Editor ...
SPJ Region 11 Blog - http://spj.org/blog/blogs/region11/default.aspx

Warner will not quit FIFA despite political win
Guardian Unlimited - UK
"I have refused consistently to dignify the garbage that (Andrew) Jennings spews out," said Warner in reference to the investigative journalist who ...
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Changing Face of Indian Journalism
Mauritius Times - Mauritius
... the Editor Rusi Karanjia named Dharam Yash Dev as India's most investigative journalist for his exposure of the Jayanti Teja financial scam, ...
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Monday, November 5, 2007

If journalism becomes further marginalized, look out world!
Reclaim the Media - Seattle,WA,USA
CL: My biggest single worry is that journalism - especially investigative journalism -- will become further marginalised, like a rare book or unique ...
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Philippines: Issues raised over President's appointment of new ...
By Tonyo Cruz
The team blog Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is unimpressed:. Macarambon is a virtual unknown, which has only cast suspicions on his appointment to the Comelec. This, despite reports saying he was nominated by former ...
Global Voices Online - http://www.globalvoicesonline.org

Review: Delirium by Laura Restrepo
Guardian Unlimited - UK
His strand of the story echoes Restrepo's own work as an investigative journalist and representative on the Colombian ceasefire commissions of the Eighties, ...
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Camini Marajh gets honorary doctorate
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
EXPRESS investigative journalist Camini Marajh was one of four persons to receive honorary doctorates during the two-day University of the West Indies (UWI) ...
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Robert Dreyfuss
By Charles Goyette
In 2001, he was profiled as a leading investigative journalist by the Columbia Journalism Review, and two of his articles have won awards from The Washington Monthly. In 2003, Dreyfuss was awarded Project Censored's first prize for a ...
Antiwar.com Blog - http://www.antiwar.com/blog

Fugitives from JP
Jamaica Plain Gazette - Jamaica Plain,MA,USA
Only a half-century later would Mike—now a well-regarded investigative journalist and war correspondent—learn the stunning truth behind those secrets. ...
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The Who By Numbers, By Kurt Loder
MTV.com - USA
Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell reported that the famed guitarist had been "falsely accused" and that the site he had accessed actually had no ...
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War author's huge archive goes on show
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... US war correspondent Dr Terry Anderson, who was held hostage in the Lebanon for seven years, and celebrated investigative journalist Philip Knightley. ...
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The tragedy of Stuart Gair
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
TV investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre was making a film about the emergency services. Stuart recognised the reporter and started telling him about his ...
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How BLACKWATER profited off of Hurricane Katrina
Amy Goodman from DemocracyNOW asks investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill how Blackwater profited off Hurricane Katrina.
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Goose Lane book nominated for BC award
The committee for the British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction has just released the first-ever longlist for its $40000 prize. Award-winning CBC investigative journalist Jacques Poitras is among the 10 nominees for his new book ...
Live It! - http://www.canadaeast.com

Double Dose: A Look at Healthcare for Women Behind Bars; House ...
By Christine C.
Healthcare Behind Bars: In her new book, "Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the US Prison System," investigative journalist Silja JA Talvi looks at multiple aspects of the prison system, including the neglect of women's health. ...
Our Bodies Our Blog - http://ourbodiesourblog.org/

Hopes for film based on Watson 'injustice'
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
Veteran screenwriter and director Jonothan Cullinane plans to make a film based on the book Trial by Trickery by investigative journalist Keith Hunter. ...
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Suffering 'Secondary Trauma'
In These Times - Chicago,IL,USA
Silja JA Talvi is a senior editor at In These Times, an investigative journalist and essayist with credits in many dozens of newspapers and magazines ...
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The Freak Show
Atlantic Online - USA
Eric Schlosser, a National Magazine Award–winning investigative journalist, is the author of Fast Food Nation (2001) and Reefer Madness (2003).
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Iranian Dissidents Debate Merits Of US Democracy Aid
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic
Investigative journalist Akbar Ganji, writing in "The Washington Post" on October 26, said that US aid to the pro-democracy movement in Iran compromises ...
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Guardian's Leigh warns that web could spell the end of the reporter
Press Gazette - UK
By Dominic Ponsford Veteran Guardian investigative journalist David Leigh fears that the "proper reporter" is under threat in the age of the internet. ...
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Journalists need courage on investigative reporting
IPP Media - Guardian - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
By Christine Afandi As I sat through a workshop on investigative journalism and reporting on environment and natural resources management two weeks ago in ...
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Former Nixon aide John Dean speaks at Brandeis
The Brandeis Hoot - West Orange,NJ,USA
Dean also contrasted the state of investigative journalism during Watergate and the three decades subsequent to the affair with the current lack of ...
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Moribound in US, investigative reporting alive in Turkey
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
Investigative journalism in the United States had started nearly 100 years ago, with the first association for investigative journalism in 1975, ...
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Blogs and Investigative Journalism: conclusion
By paulbradshaw
The concluding part of this draft book chapter sums up some of the key points and looks at the future paths of investigative journalism in a new media age. I would welcome any corrections, extra information or comments. ...
Online Journalism Blog - http://onlinejournalismblog.com