A useful tool | The Annenberg School’s FactCheck is still going strong
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One recent item raises sharp questions about Bush’s regard for the facts in his speech to the nation from Fort Bragg.

Following up | If it’s all about productivity, then make your stories count
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Future files, done right, make for better watchdog reporting. Michael Bugeja of Iowa State tells how.

From Nieman Reports | Anonymous sources: Their use in a time of prosecutorial interest SHOWCASE How should decisions be made about publishing information from confidential sources – and about protecting those sources? Washington Post national security reporter Walter Pincus explains how he goes about it. Originally published in the Summer 2005 issue of Nieman Reports.

A New York Times report | The secrecy logic: If everything is classified, we’ll be safer, right?
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Says a government official in charge of security oversight: "I've seen information that was classified that I've also seen published in third-grade textbooks."

'Chief’s disease' and other case studies | ASNE, Poynter put the spotlight on hard-edged reporting
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Thirty-one publishers and chief editors, all committed to strong watchdog journalism, met to kick off a drive for better watchdog reporting, the theme for Rick Rodriguez's tenure as this year’s ASNE president. Nieman Watchdog Project Editor Barry Sussman tells what happened.

A watchdog thought | Recalling Pulitzer on our first birthday
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May 24th marked our first anniversary online. We take the occasion to recall some words of Joseph Pulitzer: “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

Face to face is best | It’s hard to bump into stories if you don’t leave the office
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'Greed, downsizing and computerization eventually may create an investigative void,' writes Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University.

$759 million for lobbying | Health care and other investigative stories, as reported by Extra! Extra!
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From day to day, Extra!Extra!, a feature of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), issues updates on investigative reporting across the U.S. Most recently it has focused on lobbying and scams regarding health care.

Recalling the Thalidomide story | Morton Mintz on the collapse of Congressional oversight SHOWCASE A personal account by the longtime investigative reporter and adviser to this Web site on his experience with Congressional oversight, how it should work, and how Congress and the press are falling terribly short.

Nieman Reports | Water as news; stories on war and terror
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The magazine of the Nieman Foundation has two Spring 2005 issues — one in print, the other online. As usual, the offerings are highly informative, must-reads for editors and reporters

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