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ProPublica: Meet the Seven Reporters Joining Us on ProPublica's Local Reporting Network
Retweeted by Dave Weigel: https://twitter.com/daveweigel
What great news! I know from experience how good @Kenwardjr is: when I covered the environment, he kicked my butt on stories about WV, coal and mountaintop removal.
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##FF Our new ProPublica Local Reporting Network reporters: @rebekahallen @Kenwardjr @JaymeKFraser @RebeccaKMoss @jcsheckler @MollyParkerSI @WMFEHealthNerd
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Meet the Seven Reporters Joining Us on ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network
by Charles Ornstein Dec. 8, 5 a.m. EST
There are two types of police reporters, Christian Sheckler recalls his executive editor telling him not too long ago: Those who try to make friends with officers and get rewarded with juicy tips about crimes, and those who press for answers on such thorny topics as civil rights, misconduct and accountability.
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Sheckler and the South Bend Tribune are among seven applicants we selected to be part of our inaugural local reporting project. With support from a new three-year grant, we’re covering the salary and benefits of a reporter at each of these news organizations. The reporters will spend next year working on an investigative project in their home newsrooms and they will receive extensive guidance and support from ProPublica. Their work will be co-published by their home newsroom and by ProPublica.
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They were selected from a pool of 239 applications and will cover a diverse array of topics, including conflicts of interest, housing, workplace safety, mental health and criminal justice.
The other reporters and newsrooms chosen to take part in the reporting network include:
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• Ken Ward Jr., a reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail since 1991 who covers the environment with a focus on coal mining, mine safety, the chemical industry and workplace safety. In 2014, when a chemical leak contaminated the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of people, Ward exposed significant flaws in federal safety guidelines for the chemicals and in the state’s water sampling program. His disclosures led to the appointment of an independent scientific team to examine the spill’s impacts. “I can’t think of many places that are in need of good journalism more than West Virginia is, or what higher calling journalists have than to try to write stories that make their home a better place,” Ward said in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review a few years back.
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Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter at ProPublica, covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry.
Charles.Ornstein@propublica.org
@charlesornstein
917-512-0222
Signal: 818-679-9363
by Charles Ornstein Dec. 8, 5 a.m. EST
There are two types of police reporters, Christian Sheckler recalls his executive editor telling him not too long ago: Those who try to make friends with officers and get rewarded with juicy tips about crimes, and those who press for answers on such thorny topics as civil rights, misconduct and accountability.
....
Sheckler and the South Bend Tribune are among seven applicants we selected to be part of our inaugural local reporting project. With support from a new three-year grant, we’re covering the salary and benefits of a reporter at each of these news organizations. The reporters will spend next year working on an investigative project in their home newsrooms and they will receive extensive guidance and support from ProPublica. Their work will be co-published by their home newsroom and by ProPublica.
....
They were selected from a pool of 239 applications and will cover a diverse array of topics, including conflicts of interest, housing, workplace safety, mental health and criminal justice.
The other reporters and newsrooms chosen to take part in the reporting network include:
....
• Ken Ward Jr., a reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail since 1991 who covers the environment with a focus on coal mining, mine safety, the chemical industry and workplace safety. In 2014, when a chemical leak contaminated the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of people, Ward exposed significant flaws in federal safety guidelines for the chemicals and in the state’s water sampling program. His disclosures led to the appointment of an independent scientific team to examine the spill’s impacts. “I can’t think of many places that are in need of good journalism more than West Virginia is, or what higher calling journalists have than to try to write stories that make their home a better place,” Ward said in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review a few years back.
....
Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter at ProPublica, covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry.
Charles.Ornstein@propublica.org
@charlesornstein
917-512-0222
Signal: 818-679-9363
