The notion that every TV reporter can and should be digging harder in her or his everyday work, is one of the ideas behind a series of regional training sessions run by the Investigative Reporters and Editors. “IRE believes that every journalist can be a watchdog journalist,” says the organization’s director, Doug Haddix.
After investigative reporter Jeremy Jojola’s recent story on hate groups, an organization known as the Proud Boys posted angry tweets, including: “You are the enemy of the American people we will bring this to your home your work your child’s school. The way antifa does to us. The fury of America is upon you and your communist friends.”
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Tom Lyden, a KMSP Minneapolis reporter, has spent the past 10 months investigating the crisis facing Minnesota farmers, which culminated in a primetime, hour-long special entitled, Fox 9 Presents, The Last Harvest.
Ten newsrooms have been chosen to receive custom watchdog training in the coming year through Investigative Reporters & Editor’s Total Newsroom Training program (TNT), with two television stations among them — WCSC Charleston, S.C., and WSAW-WZAW Wausau, Wis., both owned by Gray Television. TNT provides two days of intensive, in-house training for small and medium-size newsrooms dedicated […]
The Price Point | Stations Are Not Afraid Of Investigative News
Hank Price: “With the unfortunate demise of print, leading television groups are making an even stronger commitment to local investigations. They are doing this with a full understanding of the financial costs. Why? Because they are in the journalism business. That means putting the well-being of the communities they serve first, no matter the cost or political pressure.”
This has been the autumn of discontent for investigative TV journalists. “I would say that you don’t go to broadcast television to see investigative reporting these days,” said Lowell Bergman, a veteran investigative news producer and emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. “There’s much less of it because it’s a bigger hassle than other kinds of reporting. And network television has always been concerned not just with ratings but with profits.”
Gretchen Morgenson, the veteran investigative reporter who has won multiple journalism prizes for her coverage of Wall Street, is joining the investigative unit of NBC News.
It looks like NBC Boston’s (WBTS) emphasis on investigative journalism has paid dividends in Washington. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has reached out to Tesla with concerns about safety flaws in Tesla’s autopilot system, citing the station’s investigation.
WEWS Moves To Wipe Away Medical Debt
KING Earns National Emmy For Investigative Report
Airing Sunday mornings, the investigative news program hosted by Sharyl Attkisson reaches nearly 700,000 households weekly.
Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel anchor and global markets editor, will present an hour-long investigative documentary special on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m. ET, highlighting the future of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry and its impact on business. During the report, Bartiromo travels across the country, gaining exclusive access to top business […]
WPLG Podcast Investigates Miami Preacher And Murders
Investigative Journalist Rachel Polansky Joins WKYC
Gray Television will debut the documentary Measure of Hate this month on all its television stations. Produced by Gray’s InvestigateTV team, the half-hour special reveals the vast undercounting of hate crimes throughout the country and how laws related to tracking and punishing hate crimes are not working. Measure of Hate shines a light on an […]
WCVB State Police Investigation Earns Gracie Award
KDEN Ups Yesmani Gomez To Investigative Anchor/Reporter
Telemundo-owned KDEN Denver (DMA 17) promoted Yesmani Gomez to anchor and reporter for the station’s investigative unit, Telemundo Responde, effective immediately. Gomez currently co-anchors the 4 and 4:30 p.m. editions of Noticiero Telemundo Denver with Adriana Macias. Gomez joined KDEN in 2016 as an MMJ after working for KLUZ Albuquerque, N.M. He also worked for […]
Texas Oil Investigation Earns KXAN Cronkite Award
WTTG Reveals Missing School Funds
How often do we read about teachers using their own money to buy supplies for their students because of cash-strapped school systems? This is a great example of how TV station news operations can, and do, hold community leaders accountable.
An experimental Facebook Watch show reports on journalism while trying to reinvent it.
WGN Airing ‘Sold for Sex’ Special Tonight
KNTV Uncovers Sex Abuse At Girl’s School
WPTA Work Safety Investigation Gets Legislature’s Attention
A 23-year-old was killed in an industrial accident. Her employer had intentionally disabled safety features on the press she operated, and was fined just $6,300. WPTA’s investigation revealed that the fines for death on the job in Indiana were so low, “it doesn’t cost that much to kill someone.”
WFOR Earns DuPont Award For Everglades Doc
KNTV Earns duPont Award For Bus Investigation
KUSI Devoted 3 Years To One Investigation
KUSA Denver Investigative Reporter Chris Vanderveen says when people spot him in public they call him “the medical bill guy” because he has done so many stories about the outrageous bills that hospitals send to patients. The Tegna-owned NBC affiliate has produced 36 in-depth stories and two hours of primetime specials about medical billing and is not letting up.
Jose Pagliery Joins WXTV As Investigative Reporter
Univision-owned WXTV New York (DMA 1) has hired Jose Pagliery to lead its investigative unit, Univision Investiga. He will conduct special reports and break stories that impact the Hispanic community across all platforms. In his role, he will also contribute to Noticias Univision 41 “A Tu Lado” (Univision 41 On Your Side), a segment aimed […]
It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that in this age of streaming and on-demand viewing, linear TV notions of time and space don’t apply. But it did take a Breland — Sandy Breland, group vice president at Raycom Media — to apply that new reality to investigative reporting.
KSL’s New Podcast Digs Into Cold Case
COLD: Susan Powell Case Files: The Untold Story, a new weekly podcast from KSL Salt Lake City investigative reporter Dave Cawley, reveals unprecedented details into the case of a woman missing since 2009. Cawley reviewed tens-of-thousands of pages of case documents for the podcast. COLD includes never-before-seen-or-heard recordings from police files, including video footage showing […]
