Entering the nonprofit era? | What the future holds for investigative reporting SHOWCASE More than 40 practitioners, writing in Nieman Reports, get into the past, present and future of watchdog reporting as they see it—and as they are and will be doing it.

| Phil Meyer, raising the ante again SHOWCASE 'The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no longer sufficient,' says the journalism innovator, at a symposium in his honor. 'Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to add value to that information by processing it – digesting it, organizing it, making it usable.'

| A tribute to a journalism innovator, and a look at the Internet
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On the occasion of the retirement of Phil Meyer, the University of North Carolina's journalism school holds a two-day symposium pondering what the Internet hath wrought.

Multimedia | An online version of 'Bush's War'
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In addition to the current two-part, 4-1/2-hour documentary, Frontline has an extensive online component. Among other things, it presents 175 video clips and transcripts of more than 400 interviews.

Honoring a legend | A new I.F. Stone medal SHOWCASE As part of its watchdog journalism commitment, the Nieman Foundation is establishing an annual award in recognition of journalistic independence and brave, provocative reporting.

Online investigative reporting | Key McCain, Clinton fundraisers lobby for foreign governments
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A Q&A with Will Evans of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). Evans gives a glimpse at how CIR works, and describes a joint CIR/ABCNews.com project pointing out that some of John McCain’s and Hillary Clinton’s leading fundraisers are also lobbyists for foreign governments.

Pursuing justice | How trusting should reporters be of law enforcement?
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A small paper in Virginia recently produced an extraordinary 24-page special report on the authorities' relentless pursuit of the wrong man in a serial-killing case -- relating a series of missed clues, bad judgments, false statements and broken promises. Pamela Gould of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star writes that the prosecution of Darrell Rice is a case study in why reporters need to be more skeptical of what police and prosecutors assert without proof – particularly when they are making assertions that go far beyond the actual charges.

For Mexicans, journalism is dangerous | Some stories don’t die
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Vicente Fox accuses a Mexican senator of drug trafficking, bringing to mind for Craig Pyes a story he worked on ten years ago.

A country shut down | Filing reports from Burma between gunshots
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For a while, reports from Rangoon flowed out via cell phones and email. Now it is pretty much blacked out, says the editor of Irrawaddy, a news magazine based in Thailand.

'Much more than a daily assignment' | Katrina 2 years later SHOWCASE In the fall issue of Nieman Reports, 19 reporters, editors and photo-journalists describe what it has been like to work on this story of rebuilding and struggle day after day, with no end in sight. Here is an advance look at their work.

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