Local media struggle to hold Sinclair accountable
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s stations are under renewed scrutiny following Deadspin’s release of a montage of anchors reading the same script about fake news. Since then, many of the anchors featured in the video have been bombarded with insults. In an unusually candid conversation with a local radio station, Doug Emblidge, an anchor at WHAM 13, my Sinclair affiliate in […]
How Do Young Journalists Get Their Training?
A few weeks ago, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work and were inundated with thoughtful, challenging questions about journalism. In the first in an occasional series of short columns by our staff, ProPublica Emerging Reporter Natalie Escobar answers this inquiry about journalism training. I would […]
We Asked Local Newsrooms to Pitch Us on Funding Investigations. The Response Has Been Enormous.
Last month, we announced a project in which ProPublica would pay for a reporter next year to do investigative journalim at up to six news organizations across the country. Our theory was that many journalists and local news organizations were aching to do this kind of work, which is vital to our democracy, but have […]
Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march
Even when heavily armed riot police closed off a square block and surrounded protesters, media workers and legal observers alike, independent journalist Alexei Wood did not realise he was about to be arrested. “It didn’t even cross my mind that was what was happening,” the 37-year-old photographer and videographer told Al Jazeera.