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British investigative outlet Exaro shuts down days after declaring it was still “open for business”

Shan WangJuly 19, 2016

As USA Today network builds its investigative ambitions, it looks to keep things in the Gannett family

Its chief content officer: “My message has been, any journalist at any of our papers can come up with a great idea, something that we think is scalable, we will help them scale it.”

Jonathan StrayMarch 3, 2015

Take two steps back from journalism: What are the editorial products we’re not building?

“Imagine all the wildly different services you could deliver with a building full of writers and developers.”

Adrienne LaFranceSeptember 27, 2013

What does the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel know that your newsroom doesn’t?

In Wisconsin, the state’s largest newspaper has committed itself to tough watchdog, investigative reporting. It’s led to journalistic success and respect from its audience.

Justin EllisJune 10, 2013

ProPublica at five: How the nonprofit collaborates, builds apps, and measures impact

Five years after launch, ProPublica’s Stephen Engelberg and Richard Tofel reflect on the nonprofit’s early days, getting readers involved in investigations, and the health of nonprofit journalism.

From Nieman Reports: Watchdog reporting is a social activity, not the work of lone wolves

“There’s a fiction perpetuated by narcissists like me that investigative reporting is the province of a few heroic lone wolves who use their superpowers to single-handedly expose and topple evildoers. Nonsense.” Stuart Watson

John Keane: The new muckrakers are challenging democratic institutions — in a good way

“The new muckraking isn’t the effect of new media alone…Yet buried within the infrastructures of communicative abundance are technical features that enable muckrakers to do their work of publicly scrutinising power, much more efficiently and effectively than at any moment in the history of democracy.” John Keane

The newsonomics of aggressive, public-minded journalism

If you want to charge readers for journalism, you have to prove its value — and that means getting beyond he-said-she-said and the view from nowhere. Ken Doctor

Jonathan StrayMay 30, 2012

What is it that journalists do? It can’t be reduced to just one thing

In the start of a regular column for Nieman Lab, Jonathan Stray argues that a too-narrow definition of the work of journalism limits the field’s potential.

CIR announces (and Knight funds) a curated YouTube channel for investigative video reporting

The Center for Investigative Reporting project aims to grow audiences and revenue by assembling the work of many different news organizations, large and small. Adrienne LaFrance

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