Da Biz: Hiring Spree at ProPublica

ProPublica Hires Seven New Staffers, Five From Newspapers
Editor & Publisher - USA
We’re thrilled that so many excellent reporters, editors and other journalists are drawn to our vision of investigative journalism in the public interest. ...
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TAGS: ProPublica, nonprofit investigative journalism

Interesting: Leaked Treaty Plans Suggest Long-Term Iraq Occupation

The Independent of London has reported on a secretive U.S. treaty with Iraq that would give it long-term arrest powers and bases in that country. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is said to be opposed, but his hands are tied because his government wouldn't stand without U.S. backing. Read The Independent's story here.
TAGS: Iraq

Investigations: FBI Helped "John Gotti of Japan"

FBI helped Japanese gangster to have life-saving transplant in US
Independent - London,England,UK
When an American investigative journalist, Jake Adelstein, began investigating the scandal for a Japanese newspaper, he was soon threatened by mobsters ...
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TAGS: organized crime, FBI

The Biz: New Models for Financing In-Depth Reporting

Financial models for “difficult” journalism
By Ethan
One of the groundrules for these conversations has been a focus on journalism that’s difficult to finance: investigative journalism and international journalism. This isn’t meant to imply that other types of journalistic writing ...
Hermenautic Circle blog - http://hermenaut.org
TAGS: financing investigative journalism

The Biz: How Filipino Citizen Journalists Powered Change

Giving viewers the chance to answer back—Maria Ressa
ABS CBN News - Philippines
In 2000, South Korean investigative journalist Oh Yeon-ho started OhmyNews.com with the motto "Every Citizen is a Reporter." That Web site is largely ...
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TAGS: citizen journalism, Philippines

The Biz: Q&A on Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism: The Professor’s View
By F.T. Rea(F.T. Rea)
There will continue to be a need and a market for the kind of "professional" news reporting that is difficult for bloggers to sustain: coverage of government meetings, crime and courts, and intricate investigative journalism, ...
SLANTblog - http://slantblog.blogspot.com/

Journalists Attacked: Brazil Paramilitaries Tortured Investigators

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Paramilitary Militias Contaminate Politics
Inter Press Service
Seven years ago, veteran investigative journalist Tim Lopes was killed by a drug trafficking gang in a favela where he was gathering information for ...