"We see a huge hunger for long-form content that has narrative drive, deep reporting, and therefore can persuade people to action."ProPublica, the first online news organization to win a Pulitzer Prize for reporting, is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Their work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.”Here ProPublica managing editor Stephen Engelberg, general manager Richard Tofel, and senior reporter Dafna Linzer talk about the importance of impartial investigative reporting and the way ebooks are changing the game for the better. Continue reading →
Regular readers will remember my outraged rant post from almost a year ago, reacting to the news that the Central Intelligence Agency faked a vaccination campaign in Pakistan as a way of getting close to Osama Bin Laden’s hide-out, hoping to prove his presence by using a vaccine needle to grab a sample of DNA. I felt, and still feel, that the maneuver — which was belatedly acknowledged by the CIA — was a cynical attempt to hijack the credibility that public health workers have built up over decades with local populations. I especially felt it endangered the status of the fraught polio-eradication campaign, which over the past decade has been challenged in majority-Muslim areas in Africa and South Asia over beliefs that polio vaccination ... Continue reading →
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