MetaFilter posts tagged with investigativejournalism

The Washington Indpendent

shothotbot — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:05:22 -0800

The Washington Independent went beta a few weeks ago. The site employs several reporters to do investigative journalism on topics of national importance. I have no idea what bugs they are hoping to fix before official release. The site is operated by the Center for Independent Media. The Center has launched alliterative local journalism sites as well focused on Colorado [Confidential], Iowa [Independent], Michigan [Messenger] and Minnesota [Monitor]. Their independence cannot be verified as they have yet to file their first financial disclosure form. I was drawn to the Washington Independent because it is new home of Spencer Ackerman, a close observer of national security policy, but all the stories I have read there seem to be high content and skeptical of authority. Metafilter turned the spotlight of its attention upon investigative journalism a few months ago.

The death of the reporter

MrMerlot — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:44:30 -0800

The internet is killing the reporter, or at least the investigative journalist. So says David Leigh, the Guardian's esteemed dirty digger. But how right is he? Doesn't "the powerful global conversation", to quote the Cluetrain Manifesto, give investigative journalism new hope. Rather than be centred around the reporter, can communities of interest unite to share and uncover the sort of information that was once the sole property of reporters like Mr Leigh?

Next thing I now, I had a bunch of naked guys on my profile.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:13:31 -0800

According to LA's Fox 11, Anonymous is epic evil and considered harmful.

You Can Run, but You Can't Hide.

ericb — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:43:47 -0800

Student Reporters Expose 'Royal' Sex Offender Caspian James Crichton-Stuart IV
Student reporters at a Minnesota high school have exposed a prospective transfer who said he was a member of the British royal family as a fraud, a 22-year-old adult, and a registered sex offender. His outlandish claims raised immediate suspicion among the staff of Stillwater Area High School's "The Pony Express" student newspaper.

The student reporters used search engines and the web to unmask the fraud. Joshua Adam Gardner (aka Caspian James Crichton-Stuart IV, the Fifth Duke of Cleveland) now sits in Mower County Jail for violating the terms of his supervised release related to the sex-offender charges.