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Canadian information commissioner reflects on his seven years in the post. And it ain't good.

Our fellow traveler Bill Dokosh in Canada tips us to this article in the Toronto Star,“Don't tell anything to anybody,”discussing what the Canadian information commissioner learned after seven years on the job. The post is,essentially,responsible for ensuring that Canadian citizens get access to government documents. 

“As a former Liberal cabinet [...]

Journalism Students Reluctant to do the Heavy Lifting?

Floyd J. McKay,a journalism professor emeritus at Western Washington University,and a regular contributor to the Seattle Times editorial pages,suggests that today's journalism students lack the right stuff to do difficult reporting. In “The hardscrabble roots of investigative journalism,”he says:“Journalism students,at least in my experience,are less interested in hard-scrabble [...]

From the Center for Public Integrity:The Lobbying Industry

Special Report Industry of Influence Nets Almost $13 Billion Shadowy lobbyists ignore rules and exploit connections

By Alex Knott

“WASHINGTON,April 7,2005 —Special interests and the lobbyists they employ have reported spending,since 1998,a total of almost $13 billion to influence Congress,the White House and [...]

Initial published description of the RRAW-P process

It was in the early '90s,when JTJ began thinking about and researching the process that results in the journalist's product. It eventually boiled down to the RRAW-P process:Research–>Reporting–>Analysis–>Writing and finally Publishing/Producing/Packaging. The attached paper first appeared in the Social Science Computer Review in 1994.