Changing equations in investigative reporting: an editor proposes that journalists seek new partners in their mission of monitoring those in power.(Newsroom Investigative Reporting)(Essay)

From: Nieman Reports | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told a group of public administrators that North Carolina's major newspapers--including Greenboro's News & Record where I am editor--bore indirect responsibility for a scandal taking place at the State Department of Transportation.

When newspapers stop assigning reporters to keep an eye on such a large and important state agency, he said, corruption and bureaucratic ineptitude flourishes. The public's business is replaced by monkey business. It's a truth that ...

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