Worldfocus Has Shut Its Doors
A year ago, the nightly public television news program Worldfocus landed a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for its report “War in DR Congo.” It scored two Emmy nominations…
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World Press Freedom Day
“Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last,” wrote Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga in an editorial published three days after his death.
Mike Bloomberg loves New York — and invests in Cayman Islands
Speculation is mounting lately that Mike Bloomberg will run for president in 2012 as an independent — but if that is his plan, despite his routine denials, then the mayor may want to clean up his offshore finances.
Tracking Lobbyist Spending on the Local Level
The New Mexico Independent, an online-only news organization, has a series of posts tracking lobbyist spending in the state capital, with short entries that include links to pdfs of individual filings. The biggest expenditure is a $9,040 cocktail dinner and breakfast combo…
Alt Weekly Pioneered Probe of Prius Dangers
Alternative weeklies, those hippie outposts of the old print media, often provide an important outlet for investigative stories that are far ahead of their mainstream competitors. The latest example is the exposure of dangerous design flaws in the Toyota Prius…
2009: Worst year for journalists
I shouldn’t state this publicly, but I’m beginning to feel immune to stories about journalists’ deaths…
Last Lawsuit Standing
I strongly recommend checking out Jeremy Scahill’s new documentary on Blackwater and its alleged murder of a nine-year-old boy during the 2007 massacre at Nisour Square.
Gawker hits HuffPost I Fund
Tough piece on Gawker yesterday about the HuffPost Investigative Fund. John Cook particularly goes after the project for running almost all of its investigations on its for-profit partner, The Huffington Post, along with a scattering of other sites, such as AlterNet and Common Dreams.
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone’s fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China’s fault, or the fault of the hapless UN…
Ambassador Lumumba, What Do You Really Think?
On Wednesday in Copenhagen, I interviewed Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the chief negotiator for the G77, the largest developing country bloc represented at the climate summit in Copenhagen. Over the course of the negotiations, Ambassador Lumumba has gained a reputation for candor…
