The Investigative News Network (INN) announced today that it has received approval of non-profit 501(c)(3) status from the IRS, allowing the organization to directly receive grants from foundations and donations from individuals and continue its mission of supporting investigative journalism.
Emily Nipps thought she'd be a journalist all her life. But like many of her colleagues nationwide, the Tampa Bay Times reporter saw what was happening to the industry and to her own newspaper and decided it was time to make a move.
Was it journalism, performance art, political provocation, or just a hell of a good story? Was it a great truth, a great lie, or somewhere in between? This American Life’s retraction (good NPR explainer here) of Mike Daisey’s January piece on Apple’s factories in China has unleashed a cascade of reaction and rethinking. It’s been a chain reaction, with the episode connecting up all our next-era hopes and fears.
Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy says the gate will slam shut earlier because “We think that 10 articles a month plus free access to the homepage and section fronts strikes a better balance between visiting and subscribing.”
"Journalists are a lot like politicians, pastors, doctors, teachers and people in every other profession — fabulous and flawed," writes Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch in a column that ponders journalistic ideals and ethics in the coverage of the controversial death of Oregonian editorial page editor Bob Caldwell. Welch is a member of the Eugene Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 37194.
In the last forty-eight hours I have been equated with Stephen Glass, James Frey, and Greg Mortenson. Given the tenor of the condemnation, you would think I had concocted an elaborate, fanciful universe filled with furnaces in which babies are burned to make iPhone components, or that I never went to China, never stood outside the gates of Foxconn, never pretended to be a businessman to get inside of factories, never spoke to any workers.
Craig Dubow's six years at Gannett were by most accounts a disaster, Waldron writes, with the company's revenue plummeting $1.7 billion and its stock price falling 86 percent, from $72 a share to just over $10. Dubow laid off at least 20,000 workers, but when he resigned amid health problems last year, he got $32 million in severance.
Oregonian editor Peter Bhatia explains in detail how the Oregonian reported and then corrected erroneous information about the death of its editorial page editor, Bob Caldwell. Caldwell suffered a heart attack after a sexual encounter with a 23-year-old woman, whom he provided money for books and school. Another editor and friend of Caldwell's wife falsely told the Oregonian that he was found dead in his car. The editor has been fired.
The Texas Tribune’s non-profit business model is harming for-profit journalism in Texas and Texas A&M’s corporate sponsorship of The Tribune should have been disclosed in a recent New York Times piece, writes blogger Stephen Robert Morse.
