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  USATODAY.com - Investigative Russian journalist killed
MOSCOW (AP) — The investigative journalist who was shot dead in her Moscow apartment building had been finishing up a story about torture and abductions in Chechnya, her colleagues said Sunday.
She was at least the thirteenth journalist to have been the victim of a contract-style killing since President Vladimir Putin came to power, according to CPJ.
She later devoted much of her investigative reporting to that crisis, in which 129 victims died, the overwhelming majority succumbing to the gas used by special forces to knock out the hostage-takers.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-10-07-russia-journalist_x.htm   (777 words)

  
 USAID Telling Our Story: South Africa - Investigative Journalist Paves a New Path
Investigative journalist Thembi Majombozi, left, meets with USAID program officer Nomea Masihleho in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss a journalism workshop.
She is now a journalist tackling issues of poverty, women’s rights, children, and people with disabilities.
Thembi envisions using her new skills in investigative journalism to report on social and community development.
www.usaid.gov /stories/southafrica/fp_sa_journalist.html   (330 words)

  
 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - The Center for Public Integrity
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a collaboration of the world's preeminent investigative reporters.
Launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, ICIJ globally extends the Center's style of watchdog journalism, working with 100 journalists in 50 countries to produce long-term, transnational investigations.
The reporting of 10 of the world's leading investigative journalists on four continents is coupled with a powerful database combining U.S. military assistance, foreign lobbying expenditures, and human rights abuses into a single, easily accessible toolkit.
www.publicintegrity.org /icij   (278 words)

  
  Church on the Web bookshop
Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing a hot story, Lee Strobel uses his experience as a reporter for the "Chicago Tribune" to interview experts from the fields of science, philosophy, and history in an attempt to force the truth about Jesus Christ and Christianity out into the open.
Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Lee Strobel uses his experience as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune to interview experts about the evidence for Christ from the fields of science, philosophy, and history.
Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Strobel uses his experience as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune to interview experts about the evidence for Christ from the fields of science, philosophy, and history.
www.churchontheweb.com /bookshop/bestsellerslist.htm   (917 words)

  
  investigative - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Investigative Reporting, newspaper or broadcast journalism that focuses on long-term efforts to uncover corruption or misconduct, especially by...
Investigative Reporters and Editors is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting within the field of journalism.
Investigative journalism is a kind of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or some other scandal.
encarta.msn.com /investigative.html   (167 words)

  
 What Investigative Reporting Entails Article - News And Life Style Articles
Investigative journalism is a specialized field that uses journalism skills, curiosity, advanced research methods, and a determination to right wrongs.
Since investigative journalism involves use of undercover sources and anonymous tips it is absolutely essential for the journalist to double check facts.
It is critical and in depth investigations to a happening or policy which will serve to prevent or correct a wrong, prevent crimes, save the planet from destruction, and shape the future of the world in more ways than one.
www.1888articles.com /what-investigative-reporting-entails-0g2tx8g241.html   (683 words)

  
 Reporters sans frontières - Bangladesh
He was the third journalist to be killed in Bangladesh since the beginning of the year.
The journalist hid when he heard the raiders break in but gave himself up to them after they threatened to kill his two-year-old son.
Five journalists were injured in grenade attacks on the Awami League opposition party rally in Dhaka on 21 August.
www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=11225   (431 words)

  
 Investigative Russian Journalist Killed   (Site not responding. Last check: )
MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian journalist known for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya was shot to death Saturday in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow, in a killing prosecutors believe could be connected to her investigative work.
Investigators suspect the killing was connected to the work of the 48- year-old journalist, Vyacheslav Raskinsky, Moscow's first deputy prosecutor said on state-run Rossiya television.
Politkovskaya's death is the highest-profile killing of a journalist in Russia since they July 2004 slaying of Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine.
www.breitbart.com /article.php?id=D8KJUMF00&show_article=1   (716 words)

  
 911 Investigative Journalist Harassed And Beaten At His Home By Undercover Cops - Looking Glass News
I have been threatened before in my career as a journalist, but this is the first time I have been intentionally beaten and abused ­ by the cops.
Apart from my un-disclosable investigation, the other calls were about how Jacob "Kobi" Alexander was able to flee with more than $60 million dollars last week, several months after it was public knowledge that he and the other Israelis working with Comverse Technology, Ltd. had swindled hundred of millions through fraudulent stock options trades.
Investigative journalists are not safe in Iraq ­ or the United States.
www.lookingglassnews.org /viewstory.php?storyid=6924   (1946 words)

  
 Journalist - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.
Reporters find the sources for their work, their reports can be either spoken or written, and they are generally expected to report in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good.
Regardless of medium, the term journalist carries a connotation or expectation of professionalism in reporting, with consideration for truth and ethics although in some areas, such as the downmarket, scandal-led tabloids, the standards are deliberately negated.
www.voyager.in /Journalist   (1532 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | John Sweeney, investigative journalist
Investigative journalist John Sweeney gives an insight into his work and invites you to send him your stories for investigation.
One recipe for investigative journalism is to find the largest crocodile in the pond and give it a poke in the eye with a sharp stick and see what happens next.
Investigative journalism is less banana dacquiris in Miami, and more a cup of tea in Rotherham bus station.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/4770498.stm   (504 words)

  
 toledoblade.com -- Blade writers earn journalist group's investigative honors
The Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting was in the category of newspapers with circulations of 100,000 or greater.
Entries are judged by journalists from across the country, each of whom has a reputation for journalistic excellence, SPJ said.
The Society of Professional Journalists, based in Indianapolis, was founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi and works to encourage the free practice of journalism and stimulate high standards of ethical behavior.
toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20040414&Kategori=NEWS08&Lopenr=404140372   (381 words)

  
 How Far is Too Far? Investigative Journalist Highlights One Case, Many Dilemmas
Nieman Fellow Renee Ferguson, the investigative reporter with Chicago’s NBC affiliate WMAQ who broke the story in 2005 after she was alerted by the victim’s mother, discussed those journalistic and ethical dilemmas in a presentation hosted by the Shorenstein Center on Tuesday, Feb. 20.
In a lively discussion, audience members and Ferguson debated issues including the identification of a victim who could not give permission and was a ward of the state, and whether pictures of the victim receiving medical treatment prior to the birth of the baby should have been shown.
Ferguson said that dramatic images and human stories do not drive her investigative work, which is often limited to newspaper-style graphics, but they do often allow the story to be told better in the medium of television.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgnews/Features/news/021907_journalism_dilemmas.html   (386 words)

  
 ABC News: Investigative Russian Journalist Killed
Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist famous for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya was shot to death Saturday in her Moscow apartment building, police and prosecutors said.
A Russian journalist known for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya was shot to death Saturday in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow, in a killing prosecutors believe could be connected to her investigative work.
Investigators suspect the killing was connected to the work of the 48-year-old journalist, Vyacheslav Raskinsky, Moscow's first deputy prosecutor said on state-run Rossiya television.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2539814   (477 words)

  
 Investigative Journalism
Bly's journalistic style was marked by her first-hand tales of the lives of ordinary people.
For example, she worked in a Pittsburgh factory to investigate child labour, low wages and unsafe working conditions.
Investigative journalism became a movement in 1902 when magazines such as McClure's Magazine and Everybody's Magazine joined Arena in the struggle for social reform.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jinvestigative.htm   (1711 words)

  
 Ottawa XPress - News - World Book Day courts investigative journalist Madelaine Drohan
The investigative journalist sitting across from me at a local coffee shop is talking about what it's like to have tea with an African warlord.
Talking with another journalist from a local arts paper has got to be kind of a break for local investigative journalist Madelaine Drohan, who travelled Africa investigating the complex relationship between corporations and warlords and mercenaries for her 2004 book Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business.
By now, we are familiar with the journalists at the beginning of the Iraq war that agreed to be imbedded in troops without the weapon or the training.
www.ottawaxpress.ca /news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=5827   (1314 words)

  
 Horacio Verbitsky: Awardee 2001
A lot of journalists who were convicted by the tribunals for investigating functionaries.
Investigations in Brazil, Venezuela, in Peru ended with a corrupt governments and that helped to strengthen the democratic institutions and to protect our peoples.
Last year, the organization that I am part of, Periodistas (which means journalists), together with CPJ organized a seminar in Buenos Aires to push for the approval in Argentina and in the other countries of the region of legislation that incorporates the "actual malice" standard, as established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1964.
www.cpj.org /awards01/verbitsky.html   (2245 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Russian investigative journalist killed in Moscow
Photo-editor Artem Geodokian, right, and journalist Tatyana Grafitskaya, back, prepare a special issue of the newspaper dedicated to the memory of Politkovskaya.photo-editor Artem Geodokian, right, and journalist Tatyana Grafitskaya, back, prepare a special issue of the newspaper dedicated to the memory of Politkovskaya.
A Russian journalist who tirelessly reported on the effects of war on the civilian population in Chechnya was shot to death Saturday in Moscow.
Prosecutors believe Anna Politkovskaya's killing may be connected to her investigative work in Chechnya, and police have launched a murder investigation into her death.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061007/russian_journalist_061007/20061007?hub=TopStories   (763 words)

  
 Investigative Journalist Launches Site Comparing Skip Tracing, Reverse Lookup Data Companies
Fitzpatrick, who has made a career out of locating people and information for his journalistic endeavors, was inspired to launch the project after noticing a surge in advertising by so-called skip tracing companies since February.
While private investigation is a regulated field, online data brokers have no governing body, no association and no oversight.
In the meantime, consumers needing investigative help, he advises, need to find a lookup or skip tracing company that is going to charge you for the actual search.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/6/prweb397312.htm   (554 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: Leading investigative journalist in Mozambique fatally shot
Carlos Cardoso, a leading investigative journalist in Mozambique, was fatally shot last week by assailants who forced his car to stop in in central Maputo, the country's capital.
The journalist was struck in the face and died immediately, the Associated Press said.
Cardoso was formerly director of the state-run Mozambican news agency AIM, and from that position often criticized efforts of the then-apartheid regime in South Africa to destabilize Mozambique, the AP reported.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=3474   (676 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Borovik: Investigative journalist
Artyom Borovik, who died on Thursday in a plane crash in Moscow, was the Soviet Union's first real investigative journalist.
After Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, Mr Borovik, who was working for the popular journal Ogonyok, took part in a unique exchange with an American journalist from Life magazine, and spent a month training with a unit of the US Army.
This was typical of the investigative nature of Mr Borovik's work, which made him a number of enemies.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/671886.stm   (324 words)

  
 Investigative journalist released by captors : print
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the kidnapping of respected investigative reporter JB Pun Magar of the fort-nightly magazine Himal Khabarpatrika, who was abducted by Maoist rebels yesterday in the Kapilbastu district southwest of Kathmandu.
The PCN-M is currently holding two other journalists: Radio Nepal presenter Dhana Bahadur Rokka Magar, who was kidnapped by rebels in the western Nepal in August 2002, and Kul Bahadur Malla, the newspaper Karnali Sandesh’s correspondent in western Nepal, who was kidnapped in June 2003.
In a separate development, Kedar Chauhan, the editor of the local weekly Rashtriya Samacharpatra and a reporter for the regional daily Darshan, was injured by a bomb which Maoists had hidden under the body of a man they had just shot in Rajghat, in the eastern district of Morang.
www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=12812   (495 words)

  
 Muslim American Society
Her killing, in the lift of her own apartment block, is the latest in a series of murders to target prominent campaigners which have besmirched the democratic credentials of the state.
In recent years she knew that she was a marked woman because of her journalistic work, which included searing critiques of Putin, a KGB agent turned president, and his wars in
In her 2004 book Putin's Russia, which lifted the lid on the subversion of Russia's nascent civil institutions by Putin, she assailed the West for turning a blind eye to what was going on.
www.masnet.org /aroundworld.asp?id=3818   (990 words)

  
 Phillips Exeter Academy | Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh Addresses Exeter on American Foreign Policy
Exeter, NH (January 11, 2007)—Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author, Seymour Hersh, will deliver an address entitled, “American Foreign Policy,” on Thursday, February 1, at 7 p.m.
Having uncovered some of the most important news in the last 30 years, Hersh is a renowned and determined investigative reporter and columnist best known for his coverage and exposure of U.S. military policy, national security and foreign policy matters.
It honors investigative reporting or groundbreaking analysis that sheds new light on an issue of public interest.
www.exeter.edu /academics/news_events_5030.aspx   (636 words)

  
 Poynter Online - About the Job
Keeping the government and powerful corporations in check, most journalists say, is one of the reasons they wanted to go into journalism.
Yet with the industry's squeeze on costs and time, the beat arguably most sacred to journalism is often the one to feel the pressure.
Most of these journalists are in favor of a national shield law.
www.poynter.org /column.asp?id=83&aid=115844   (306 words)

  
 EU News - Investigative journalist to speak at Evangel University
The event is jointly sponsored by the Evangel University Communcation Department, the Evangel Chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists, and the Association of Christian Collegiate Media.
Among the most recent investigative stories he has broken is one on the current Miss America being "gagged" on her position on sexual abstinence.
The Society for Collegiate Journalists (formerly Pi Delta Epsilon) is a national collegiate honorary journalism organization, existing to recognize excellence and outstanding achievements in journalism and to encourage good journalistic practices in undergraduate institutions.
www.evangel.edu /News/PressReleases/2003/20030208PulitzerSpeakerAtEvangel.asp   (843 words)

  
 Seymour Hersh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seymour Myron (Sy) Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in New York City.
Later that year, Hersh was hired as a reporter for the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, where he served from 1972 to 1975 and again in 1979.
Hersh went on to publish an article claiming that the abuses were part of a secret interrogations program, known as "Copper Green", expanded to Iraq with the direct approval of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in an attempt to deal with the growing insurgency there.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seymour_Hersh   (2355 words)

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