Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Interesting: $700B Financial Bailout Blows Away Past Relief Efforts

How does the proposed $700-billion bailout of U.S. financial players compare to past relief efforts? A ProPublica analysis shows it blows them all away, including the $300-billion savings-and-loan imbroglio. See the table and graphic here.

TAGS: markets

CAR Resources from Lillehammer Global Investigative Journalism Conference

Oslo-based journalist Kristine Lowe posts links to a host of useful Computer-Assisted Reporting resources from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer in this item on her blog, which is full of other interesting posts and resources.

TAGS: resources

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Announcing: Benefit for Newly Formed Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting

So you wanna see more investigative journalism in Canada. So do many of us sluggos. Now, a bunch of like-minded journalists have gotten together to try to make it happen. We've formed the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting. The advisory board includes such illustrious names as author Julian Sher, CBC Manitoba managing editor Cecil Rosner, journalism professor Maxine Ruvinsky, author Stevie Cameron, author Paul McKay and CBC investigative unit senior producer Susanne Reber. The executive director is Bilbo Poynter, a CBC investigative journalist who came up with this idea and brought all of us together. (I am the centre's vice-president.)

The new nonprofit centre, which has applied for charity status, will support Canadian investigative journalism projects in collaboration with other media along the model of U.S. outfits like the Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica.

The centre invites you to join us for a benefit on Saturday, Sept. 27, in Hamilton's Skydragon Centre (27 King William St.) Susanne Reber will be on hand to speak about her book, "Starlight Tour: 'The Last Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild," an investigation of Saskatoon cops who drove First Nations kids far out of town to die in the freezing cold. The benefit starts at 7 p.m. For information, contact canadiancentre@gmail.com.