NPR:
A new journalism venture, Pro Publica, is aimed at creating a newsroom for investigative journalism. Paul Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will serve as president and editor-in-chief.
Pro Publica's site here. Slate on the motivation of the Herbert and Marion Sandler who founded and funded Pro Publica as a nonprofit. Martin Sandler, former head of Golden West Financial, chairs its board. Who will investigate whom why? Will this be another ideological engine, or will it be a all-purpose muckraker?
. . .if a guy like me, a mountain guide from Alaska, can get a laptop and a small digital camera and go to Iraq and start reporting on what’s happening and do things like break stories about home raids and torture and white phosphorus being used in Fallujah, then why can’t the corporate media, with their millions and millions of dollars and all the advanced high-tech equipment available to them, why can’t they do it? And that’s the unanswered question. dNOW
Posted by: sir kum scission | October 16, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Dangling beneath a bad joke sounds like a career path to me.
Posted by: The World's a Play House | October 16, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Doing the investigative piece may be easier than getting it on the network news. Nice that the editors will be from the Wall St Journal. But how much investigative work has the WSJ done, and in what areas?
Posted by: Phil | October 16, 2007 at 08:01 PM