FIJ seeks grant proposals for investigative reporting

WASHINGTON (March 8, 2011) — The Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism (FIJ) is seek­ing grant pro­pos­als for inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive projects from jour­nal­ists who need sup­port for travel and other report­ing expenses. The dead­line for pro­pos­als is 5 p.m. EDT, April 11. FIJ is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in pro­pos­als from reporters inves­ti­gat­ing issues in the United States, involv­ing governmental […]

Fund Seeks Grant Proposals for Local and Ethnic Media Investigative Reporting

If you’re a staff or free­lance reporter inves­ti­gat­ing issues in your state or local com­mu­nity, or are work­ing on inves­tiga­tive sto­ries for eth­nic media, you could be eli­gi­ble for a boost from the Fund for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism. The fund is cur­rently seek­ing grant pro­pos­als and is keen to sup­port pre­cisely those kinds of projects, thanks […]

Stephen Janis is Baltimore’s Alternative Journalist

By Rachel McAthy, Journalism.co.uk August 11, 2010 He might be shad­ow­ing an apart­ment man­ager deal­ing with sus­pected drug deal­ers one day and dis­cussing the polic­ing of crime with vet­eran detec­tives the next. Every­day, Stephen Janis aims to be the jour­nal­ist on the ground, cov­er­ing crime and cor­rup­tion sto­ries missed by the main­stream. Janis is an award-winning […]

CJR: Blazing Trails, Changing Paths

By Cur­tis Brainard The News Fron­tier, The Obser­va­tory — August 03, 2010 12:48 p.m. When Inves­ti­gate West, an inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism site, sprung up last sum­mer after the vir­tual col­lapse of the Seat­tle Post–Intel­li­gencer, we called its founders—former P-I staffers com­mit­ted to find­ing a fresh mod­els for the news business—the “new pio­neers of the west.” Now, a little […]

Point Reyes Light Strikes New Path with Hybrid Business Model

The Pulitzer-prize win­ning Point Reyes Light is now owned by the Point Reyes Light Pub­lish­ing Co. L3C, a low-profit lim­ited lia­bil­ity com­pany, which is owned by Marin Media Insti­tute, a non­profit cor­po­ra­tion that has applied for 501c3 sta­tus. From The Inves­tiga­tive Report­ing Work­shop, Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion They had a choice. They could watch […]

From AJR: Capital Flight  

Watch­dog report­ing is at an alarm­ing low at many fed­eral agen­cies and depart­ments whose actions have a huge impact on the lives of Amer­i­can cit­i­zens. This arti­cle appears in the June/July issue of Amer­i­can Jour­nal­ism Review. It was funded by the Open Soci­ety Insti­tute. By Jodi Enda After an explo­sion killed 29 coal min­ers in West […]

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Journalists Running Start-Ups Face Tall Odds

By Alan D. Mut­ter Posted Mon­day, June 7, 2010, on Reflec­tions of a New­sosaur Fed up with fur­loughs and down-sizing – or forced invol­un­tar­ily out of their jobs – jour­nal­ists across the land are tak­ing mat­ters into their own hands by start­ing their own news sites. While I applaud these brave and com­mend­able efforts, I fear […]

Investigative Journalism is Alive and Well

I have to turn you guys on to Greg Palast’s report­ing on the oil spill. It’s amaz­ing stuff. After you read this piece, click on “home” on his site to see his other work. It gives me rea­son for hope — that our pro­fes­sion will endure. By Greg Palast I’ve seen this movie before. In […]

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