Investigations: "Rotten to the Corps"

How the Army Corps Is Swindling Americans
By Michael Grunwald, Grist.org
"With the help of Congress, they've been ripping off Americans long before the Katrina debacle, and no one's willing to stop them." Also interesting is Grunwald's story on how the Army Corps of Engineers is to blame for the Katrina disaster. Read it here.

The Biz: Ex-USA Today Scribe Sez Pulitzers Reward "Dying Art Form"

Prize for Best Performance in a Declining Industry Goes To...
Conde Nast Portfolio - New York,NY,USA
... Journalism Review -- a bastion of old-guard journalism -- proudly points out that the Pulitzers celebrate the power of investigative journalism. ...
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Awards: Washington Post Tops Pulitzers

Washington Post tops in Pulitzer wins
Media Life Magazine - USA
It was Bogdanich's third Pulitizer for investigative journalism, his second at the Times. The Pulitzers are administered by the journalism school at ...
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How To: Book Writing Tips from Ida Tarbell Author

So You Want to Write A Book? Here Are Some Tips
Editor & Publisher - USA
I make the case that Tarbell invented what today we call investigative journalism. She did so primarily while investigating Standard Oil Company and its ...
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The Biz: Net Blurring Line Between Editorial and Ads

Newspapers & the Net: Where’s the Business Model, People?
By Jay Rosen
It proposes to transfer the subsidy from ads in newspapers to wealthy individuals and foundation donors who don’t want to see investigative journalism die. ProPublica would use the prestige press as a distribution channel, ...
Britannica Blog - http://www.britannica.com/blogs

The Biz: Beat Reporting Can Lead to Pulitzer Gold, Too

Keeping the beat
Boston Globe - United States
(Others include the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, and soon perhaps, Global News Enterprises, ...
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Books: How an Investigative Journo Brought Down Standard Oil

Book review: Taking on the Trust
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
This is the subject of Taking on the Trust by Weinberg, an investigative journalist and University of Missouri professor. Weinberg calls this a “capsule ...
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The Biz: Walking the Talk of the Web, Glaser Reviews Fluff & Stuff

It’s Time for Newsrooms to Walk the Talk of Change
MediaShift - CA,USA
There will be panels such as “Is There a Future for Investigative Journalism?” “Investigative Reporting on the Web?” and “Are Non-Profits the Answer? ...
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In the Law: UK Shelves Data Protection Bill Targeting Journos

Government shelves plans to jail data theft journalists
Press Gazette - UK
In October last year, in his speech on Liberty, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he intended to remove barriers to investigative journalism.
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Interesting: Colonel Westhusing's Suicide Raises Questions About U.S. Involvement in Iraq Corruption

A U.S. Army colonel's suicide is raising questions about commanders involved in official corruption in Iraq. Read here and here. For a database on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, see here.

[TAGS: Iraq, corruption in Iraq, military contractors, David Petraeus, Ted Westhusing]

Investigations: "King Corn" Explores Underbelly of Corporate Agriculture

From KingCorn.net, the site of an interesting new documentary about corporate agriculture: "King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm."

[TAGS: corn, genetic engineering, genetically engineered corn, agribusiness]