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Investigative Shortfall
Many news outlets are doing far less accountability reporting than in the past, bad news indeed for the public. New nonprofit investigative ventures have emerged, but they can’t pick up the slack by themselves.
By Mary Walton
The Nonprofit Explosion
Foundation-funded investigative journalism plays an increasingly important role. The big question for the future: "Sustainability."
By Mary Walton
Reloading at the Statehouse
As traditional news organizations shed state government reporters, a wide array of innovative startups is rising to fill the gap.
By Mark Lisheron
Traffic Problems
How the drive to attract massive numbers of visitors to their Web sites (and the advertisers that might follow them) is having a profound effect on news judgment at traditional news organizations.
By Paul Farhi
Embracing Original Content
As fewer and fewer people use portals to access the Internet, AOL and Yahoo! are hiring journalists and posting their own material in an effort to bolster Web traffic.
By Jube Shiver Jr.
Short on Ethics?
Two Web sites that investigate business fraud are funded by short selling—placing market bets that the stock of companies they write about will go down. It’s an approach that makes journalism ethicists very uncomfortable.
By Cary Spivak
In Response
Banning unsigned online comments undermines the media’s role as a forum for debate
By Bill Reader
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» Rem Rieder
Moving Forward
A battering series of cuts, and an exciting if uncertain search for solutions
» Barb Palser
The Hazards of Hyperlocal
Why neighborhood news online is a dicey proposition
» Deborah Potter
Early in the Morning
Local news operations are embracing the 4:30 a.m. newscast.
» John Morton
Broadband Blues
The expansion of high-speed Internet access was bad news for newspaper advertising.
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Best Pun Award
Cornea thief had shellfish motive, police say
(a headline, written by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Michael Zahn, over a story on a man who stole two human corneas in a plastic foam package, which he thought contained lobsters)
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