On March 31 the auditorium of the Roy H. Park School of Communications was full of students listening intently as Greg Palast detailed his experiences as an investigative journalist. An internationally renowned investigative reporter, Palast ran this informal master...
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The Lever Celebrates Izzy Award: “We Just Won Something Huge”
The Park Center for Independent Media recently announced that investigative news outlet The Lever, alongside three other recipients, won the 2023 Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media.” The Lever celebrated its win this weekend in its...
Open-Source Investigations Becoming Standard in Modern Newsrooms
On December 7, Nieman Reports published a comprehensive piece on the concept of open-source investigations (OSI). Maxim Edwards, the writer of the piece, began by clarifying that OSI is not simply information obtained through social media, but rather “any information...