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Welcome to the investigative reporting blog of award-winning journalist Alex Roslin, author of the book Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence. Roslin was president of the board of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting, and his awards include the Arlene Book Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He doesn’t necessarily endorse material linked below.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Role of investigative journalism emphasised
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  • Centre for Investigative Journalism: UK-based nonprofit
  • Consortium News: website of Iran-contra journalist Robert Parry's Consortium for Independent Journalism
  • Democracy Watch: Canadian government & corporate accountability
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  • FactCheck.org: investigating politician truthiness
  • Forum for African Investigative Reporters
  • GlobalJournalist.org: Missouri j-school students chronicle global press freedom
  • Harper's Magazine's investigative journalism blog
  • Institute of Professional Investigators
  • Intelligence Report: Southern Poverty Law Center quarterly on organized racism
  • International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
  • Investigative News Network: group of investigative nonprofits
  • Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • Jim Romenesko's blog: vet reporter covers the biz
  • Journalism.co.uk: The essential site for journalists
  • Julian Sher's JournalismNet.com: research tips & resources from a master
  • Left Business Observer
  • Mark Hamilton's blog: investigative resources from Vancouver-based journalism teacher
  • MediaMatters.org: DC-based nonprofit minoriting conservative misinformation in the media
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  • One World Research: former Human Rights Watch attorney John Sifton's research firm, specializing in public-interest cases
  • PBS Frontline
  • Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
  • ProPublica: nonprofit investigative journo outfit
  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: free legal advice to reporters
  • StinkyJournalism.org: when something smells fishy
  • StopFake.org: investigating media misinformation about Ukraine
  • Sunlight Foundation: promoting government transparency
  • This Magazine: "Because Everything Is Political"
  • Toronto Star investigative stories page
  • TV Newser: investigative news on the tube
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Jobs & Freelancing

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  • Storyboard.ca - freelance news
  • WritersWeekly.com: "highest-circulation freelance writing ezine in the world"
  • Writing World: tips & resources

Investigative Journalism Resources: Books

  • Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada (by Cecil Rosner)
  • List: 50 good journalism books
  • List: Canadian investigative journalism books (by Cecil Rosner)
  • Poynter Institute: investigative journalism bibliography
  • The Truth Shows Up: inside story of Canada's Airbus investigation (by Harvey Cashore)
  • Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing (by Robert A. Caro)

Investigative Journalism Resources: Corruption, Corporate, Following the Money Trail, Economy

  • 10b-5daily.com: news and analysis on class-action litigation
  • 10Q Detective blog: investigating SEC 8K & 10Q filings
  • Accounting Observer blog: Baltimore investment researcher covers corporate-accounting missteps, audits & the SEC
  • AirDisaster.com: accident databases, probes & stats
  • Aviation: IRE's aviation resources & database for story research
  • BailOutSleuth.com: Mark Cuban's site investigating the financial bailout of '08
  • Consumerist.com: consumer activism
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  • Crunchbase: searchable technology company & people database
  • Daily Caveat: corruption and white-collar crime blog by investigator Michael Thomas
  • Elections Canada: political financing databases
  • Employee company reviews: Glassdoor
  • Farm Subsidies Database: USDA records compiled by the Environmental Working Group
  • Footnoted.org: analyzing company footnote disclosures
  • Fraud Fighter blog: tracking illegal corporate conduct
  • Fraud Files: noted forensic accountant Tracy Coenen's blog
  • FRED: searchable economic data from the Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  • Global Anti-Corruption Blog: edited by Harvard law professor Matthew Stephenson
  • GovernmentExpenses.ca: Database of federal government expense claims
  • Industry Canada's Strategis website: federally registered company database
  • IPaidABribe.com: site in India compiling corruption stories
  • Iraq Revenue Watch: monitoring Iraq gov't spending & oil revenue misuse
  • LaborNet.org
  • MortgageFraudBlog: news on mortgage and real-estate fraud
  • OffshoreBusiness.com: records & news on financial crime & laundering
  • Panama Papers offshore firms database: searchable archive from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
  • Professional Pilots Rumor Network
  • Project on Government Oversight: D.C.-based nonprofit exposing government corruption and waste
  • Quebec government's Registre des entreprises: provincially registered company database
  • Revenue Watch Institute: monitoring natural-resources revenue management & corruption
  • SEC Actions: blog on SEC investigations
  • ShareSleuth.com: probing fraud in "the lower reaches of the stock market"
  • Small Investor Protection Association (Canada)
  • Transparency International
  • U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission: trading data & industry filings
  • White Collar Crime Professors blog
  • White Collar Fraud: ex-stock swindler Sam Antar's blog
  • White-Collar Crime Fighter: aimed at government and corporate anti-fraud investigators
  • World Bank Anti-Corruption Page
  • Yahoo! Finance: market data

Investigative Journalism Resources: Educational

  • Free Educational eBooks
  • French: Pepit - reading, math
  • Math, Science: KhanAcademy.org - 2,000+ searchable educational videos and math exercises
  • Music: McGill music library - scores, recordings, books
  • Online Courses: Free Language Lessons
  • Online Courses: Free University Courses
  • Online Courses: University MOOCs Listing
  • Reading: FreeRice game
  • Reading: Starfall - interactive stories for beginners
  • Science (astronomy): Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • Science (nature): Wild Times magazine

Investigative Journalism Resources: Environment & GMOs

  • BurningIssues.org: wood stove pollution
  • Canadian Physicians for the Environment
  • Carbon Trade Watch: exposing rackets in the carbon market
  • The Ecologist: investigative environment reporting
  • Environmental Defense's Scorecard: toxic chemicals database
  • Environmental Working Group: polluter database
  • ETCGroup.org: scrutiny of agribusiness & GMOs
  • GlobalPublicMedia: news for a post-carbon world
  • Institute of Science in Society
  • MiningWatch.ca
  • Oil Depletion Resource Page
  • Pembina Institute: Ottawa-based alternative-energy think tank
  • Pesticide Action Network North America
  • Sinks Watch: scrutinizing carbon sink projects
  • SunshineProject.org: biolab & GMO safety
  • Toxic Release Inventory: environmental databases
  • WoodHeat.org: burn wood better

Investigative Journalism Resources: First Nations

  • APTN Investigates: First Nations current affairs from Canada's Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
  • First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada: research site
  • Indian Claims Commission: Canadian specific land claims resources & decisions
  • Simon Fraser University: First Nations land claims research page

Investigative Journalism Resources: FOI, Access to Information & Privacy

  • Access Info Europe
  • AccessReports.com: FOI news edited by U.S. lawyer Harry Hammit
  • AccessReports.com: FOI News (Canadian)
  • Article19: London-based Global Campaign for Free Expression
  • FOIAdvocates.net: Freedom of Info Advocates Network
  • FOIChina Blog
  • FOI Letter Generator
  • FreedomInfo.org: The Online Network of Freedom of Info Advocates
  • National Campaign for People's Right to Information, India
  • National Freedom of Information Coalition
  • OpenGovernment.ca: Campaign for Open Government
  • Open Secrets: blog of BBC FOI specialist Martin Rosenbaum
  • OpenTheGovernment.org: advocacy and resources for government transparency
  • PrivacyLawyer.ca: counsel David Fraser's privacy resources
  • Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia
  • Secret No More: FBI FOI documents
  • SunshineWeek.org: Your Right to Know
  • UK Freedom of Information Blog

Investigative Journalism Resources: Health, Science & Parenting

  • Adverse drug reactions: research resources from CBC News
  • Adverse drug reactions: searchable Health Canada database
  • AdverseEvents.com: Searchable database on drug side effects
  • Alliance for Human Research Protection: nonprofit investigating unethical medical research
  • BadgerAndBlade.com: resources on the wet-shaving revolution
  • Breastfeeding resources: leading Canadian expert Dr Jack Newman's site
  • Breastfeeding, nutrition and parenting resources: KellyMom.com's discussion board and database
  • Cafe Pharma: databases and chat boards for medical and pharma salespeople
  • Canadian Rx Atlas, 2008: prescription trends database
  • Center for Science in the Public Interest: D.C.-based advocate for evidence-based health and environmental policies
  • Chemical Imbalance blog: database of info critical of pharma psychiatric research and marketing
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry blog: critical perspectives from a fed-up academic
  • Dollars for Docs: ProPublica database on pharma payments to MDs
  • Dr. Joseph Mercola's natural health news site: includes searchable articles database
  • Eli Lilly's registry of payments to doctors
  • Food additives: database from the Center for Science in the Public Interest
  • Health databases: dozens of searchable links from the B.C. College of Physicians & Surgeons
  • Informed Medical Decisions: great med research database from nonprofit promoting evidence-based medicine
  • Merck's registry of payments to doctors
  • MotherFriendly.org: Coalition for Improving Maternity Services
  • National Vaccine Information Center
  • NoFreeLunch.org: medical resources focused on evidence-based health care, critical of pharmaceutical marketing
  • PatientsLikeMe.com: Searchable interactive forum for patients to get info on medical conditions
  • Pharmalot.com: award-winning health reporter Ed Sullivan's pharma blog
  • PharmaWatch: lawyers' site on defective drugs and med devices
  • PsychMedAware: B.C. citizens' group studying psychiatric drug prescriptions
  • PublicScience.ca: public science resources from Canadian government scientists' union
  • PubMed: free searchable biomedical research database with over 18 million citations
  • Regroupement Naissance Renaissance
  • Retraction Watch: monitoring scientific retractions
  • Scientific Misconduct blog: UK MD Aubrey Blumsohn's musings on pharma scientific misconduct
  • VaccineInfo.net: Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education
  • WorstPills.org: Public Citizen's searchable pharma database on drug side effects and research

Investigative Journalism Resources: Intel & Military

  • Administration of Torture: ACLU attorneys document FOIA torture records
  • Ares: Aviation Week's widely read defense technology blog
  • Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies
  • Center for Defense Information
  • CIA-On-Campus.org
  • Cocaine Importing Agency: The CIA-Crack Connection
  • Covert Action Quarterly
  • Cryptome: intel & military database
  • Cyper-Rights.org
  • Danger Room: Wired journos probe whacky & weird depths of military research
  • EchelonWatch.org
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center
  • Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review: ex-East Europe spies dish
  • Ex-CIA man Robert Steele's Open Source Solutions: intel database, analysis & resources
  • Federation of American Scientists
  • FIRST: free security & international relations database
  • FormerSpook blog: by a military intelligence vet
  • GlobalSecurity: intel & military databases
  • Information Dissemination: mil blog observations of an "armchair admiral"
  • Intelligence Forum
  • IntelligenceOnline
  • International Crisis Group: geopolitics database
  • Jane's Intelligence Review
  • Lobster Magazine: investigating "para-politics"
  • MERLN: Military Education Research Library Network
  • Missile Index: searchable online version of Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Missile Systems
  • NameBase: national security database
  • National Defense Mega Directory: searchable industry databases
  • National Security Archive: Washington-based independent research institute and library
  • National security contractors watchdog blog: "Outsourced" author R.J. Hillhouse's natsec blog
  • National Security News Service: award-winning U.S. investigative non-profit focusing on natsec
  • Naval Vessel Register: official USN ships & craft inventory
  • NOSINT: blog for Naval open source intelligence
  • Nuclear weapons documents archive: includes late Chuck Hansen's collection
  • School of the Americas Watch
  • Scramble: worldwide Air Force orders of battle & databases
  • Secrecy News: bulletin of the Federation of American Scientists' project on government secrecy
  • Secret No More: FBI FOI documents
  • Site Intel Group: terrorism primary sources database
  • Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
  • StrategyPage.com: searchable site with military, intel and wargaming news and discussion groups
  • Stratfor: intel & geopolitical analysis
  • Studies in Intelligence: selected declassified articles from the CIA's in-house journal
  • The Memory Hole: documents from the CIA's Phoenix Program
  • U.S. Army Weapon Systems Handbook, 2010: detailed catalogue of dozens of weapons
  • U.S. Army's Reimer Digital Library: training and doctrine documents - restored online after ATI suit
  • Worldwide-Military.com: weapons system database (includes international mil aircraft, army, special forces & ships)

Investigative Journalism Resources: Iraq & Mideast

  • A Star From Mosul Blog
  • Angry Arab News Service: blog of California State U prof As'ad AbuKhalil
  • AntiWar.com
  • Baghdad Burning Blog
  • Dahr Jamaiul's Mideast Dispatches
  • DEBKAfile: well-connected Israeli security website
  • Foundation for Middle East Peace
  • Informed Consent: U of Michigan historian Juan Cole's acclaimed Mideast blog
  • Iraq Revenue Watch: monitoring Iraq gov't spending & oil revenue misuse
  • Iraq Veterans Against the War
  • IraqBodyCount.net
  • Media and Islam: blog of Bushra Burney of the South Bay Islamic Association
  • Military Families Speak Out
  • Pajhwok Afghan News: searchable archive
  • Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan: searchable Afghan news database
  • WikiLeaks Database of Secret U.S. War Files from Afghanistan

Investigative Journalism Resources: Law, Justice, Organized Crime, Policing

  • AltLaw: legal search engine created by law professors Tim Wu and Paul Ohm
  • Badge of Dishonor: Seattle Post-Intelligencer series on officer-involved family violence
  • BehindTheBlueWall.com: police family violence
  • CanLII: searchable Canadian law and caselaw database (fed and provincial)
  • CanLII: searchable international legal and regulatory databases
  • Criminal Justice Degrees: List of U.S. academic programs
  • Families Against Mandatory Minimums: resources on sentencing law reform
  • FEAR (Forfeiture Endangers American Rights)
  • Jerry Capeci's GangLandNews.com
  • JURIST Canada: U of Pittsburgh law prof Bernard Hibbitts' legal databases
  • Justia: legal search engine, includes categorized court searches, states, blogs, forms and research
  • Justice Behind the Walls: UBC law prof Michael Jackson's website on prisoner rights
  • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: cops' website
  • Media Awareness Project: drug reform news & resources
  • Mob Speak: a "poker consultant" and blackjack player blog on the mob
  • NarcoNews: drug reform news & resources
  • Nathanson Centre: York University-based studies in organized crime & corruption
  • Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project: Eastern European investigative journo site
  • PACER: Public Access to Court Electronic Records (U.S.)
  • ParalegalAdvice.com: legal resources ("when your legal problem does not need an expensive lawyer")
  • Pivot Legal Society: legal advocacy for the marginalized in B.C.
  • Police domestic violence blog
  • PoliceDomesticViolence.com
  • PopeHat: U.S. legal matters blog
  • Public Library of Law: legal search engine, includes state courts, rulings and regs
  • RateMyCop.com: searchable officer ratings
  • Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com
  • Sentencing Project: criminal justice reform data
  • SistersInSolidarity.com: family violence resources
  • TracFed: database on U.S. government law-enforcement activities

Investigative Journalism Resources: Political & Global

  • Balkan Insight: daily investigative and analytical news
  • CommonDreams.org: news & views for the progressive community
  • CounterPunch.org
  • DemocracyNow.org: from journalists Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez
  • DemocraticUnderground.com: Alternative news and commentary
  • FactCheck: Holding Politicians Accountable
  • HuffingtonPost: progressive commentary and news aggregator
  • Millenium-Ark: worldwide disaster news daily
  • MoveOn.org
  • OneWorld: human-rights news & resources
  • POTUS Tracker: Washington Post tracks the president's activities
  • The Politico: inside Capitol Hill, the '08 campaign & Washington lobbying
  • The Raw Story: alternative news
  • TheDubyaReport.com
  • TheLeftCoaster.com: outside-the-Beltway look at politics
  • TomDispatch: progressive news and commentary from Tom Engelhardt and The Nation Institute
  • Top 100 Canadian Progressive Blogs
  • Trump impeachment inquiry: database of all publicly available documents, from JustSecurity.org
  • WeDoNotConsent

Investigative Journalism Resources: Search & Tools

  • Alexa: research websites
  • AllExperts.com: thousands of expert volunteers in numerous domains answer your questions for free
  • Aviation: IRE's aviation resources & database for story research
  • Books: search Canadian used book stores
  • Confidential Resource: internet research blog
  • Crunchbase: searchable technology company & people database
  • Directory of Canadian government employees
  • Directory of Quebec government employees
  • Directory of U.S. government agencies
  • Directory of U.S. government officials
  • EarmarkWatch.org: database of Congressional earmarks
  • Emails search engine: German-language site, but it works everywhere!
  • Family Tree Now: search tool to find people
  • GlobalVoicesOnline.org: excellent international news database
  • Google Insights for Search: study search volume traffic
  • Help A Reporter Out: free search tool for sources and experts
  • History on Film: searchable blog on historical cinema
  • How-to Videos: 5min.com - searchable video database
  • IMDB: Internet Movie Database - searchable db for film, TV and actors
  • Internet Archive: out-of-copyright movies, live concerts, e-books, images, audio and archived Web pages
  • Intute: seach engine for best research sites
  • Investigative Reporters & Editors: database of investigative stories
  • Investigative Search Tools: Columbia Journalism Review
  • Justia Regulation Tracker: search U.S. federal departments & agencies regs
  • New America Media: searchable ethnic news portal
  • Newspaper Front Pages: searchable dailies database from Newseum
  • OhMyGov!: searchable database for U.S. government news, organized by agency and issue
  • OMBWatch.org: scrutiny of the White House Office of Management and Budget
  • OMBWatch.org: scrutiny of the White House Office of Management and Budget
  • OpenCongress.org: Sunlight Foundation's searchable legislative database & research tools
  • OpenSignalMaps: worldwide interactive maps of cell tower signals
  • PeopleSearchPro: search for people by location in the U.S.
  • Phone numbers: search public records
  • Phone numbers: WhitePages.com
  • Phone numbers: worldwide directory
  • PRWatch: from the Center for Media & Democracy
  • ReferenceExtract: planning for a search engine credibility-weighted to sites used by librarians
  • RiseUp lists: searchable database of 12,000 alternative news lists
  • Scribd.com: searchable library of free books
  • SearchSystems: U.S. and Canadian public records search engines and resources
  • Snopes.com: internet hoaxes database
  • SocialMention: social media searches and analysis
  • SourceWatch: PR & propaganda database
  • Statistics Canada Depository Services Program: index of downloadable publications
  • TextMap.com: search engine mapping relationships between people, places and news events - very cool
  • TheRadio.com: searchable music database
  • Transcription tool - Google Docs
  • Transcription tool - Otter
  • VideoSurf: targeted video searches
  • WikiLeaks: anonymous leaked documents database
  • Wolfram Mathematica Online Integrator: compute using 2,500+ math functions
  • Wolfram/Alpha: Google's searchable artifical intelligence tool computes answers to your questions
  • WordReference.com: professional-quality online translation and definitions tool (includes searchable and query-able forum for translators)
  • World Webcam Directory
  • WorldCat: search 1.5 billion items in 10,000 library collections worldwide
  • WorldMapper.org: Hundreds of searchable world maps with countries re-sized by subject
  • Worlfram MathWorld: web's most extensive math resource
  • Zanran: data, graphs and charts search tool
  • ZoomInfo.com: global people search directory

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