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Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:52 AM

Government Screw-Ups

I've seen a couple of great examples recently of television networks serving as watchdogs when the government acts with complete insensitivity toward some of its most vulnerable citizens. Brian Ross and Vic Walter of ABC News, in conjunction with Audrey
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:21 AM

Smugglers and Guards

As investigative reporting budgets shrink while multimedia storytelling expands, I wonder if we'll see more joint efforts like the one between PBS' Frontline World and The New York Times that ran yesterday. "Mexico: Crimes at the Border" by Lowell
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Monday, May 19, 2008 6:07 AM

Hidden Cameras

The use of hidden cameras for investigative reporting fell after ABC got smacked with a $2.47 billion lawsuit because it ran an undercover story in 1992 about the Food Lion grocery chain (an appeals court later reduced the award for damages to $2).
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:31 PM

Storm Damage

It's a reporter's nightmare: trying to cover a devastating natural disaster in a country controlled by a paranoid military junta. The news out of Burma this week has been spotty after a cyclone killed tens of thousands of people or perhaps more than 100,000 --
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Monday, May 05, 2008 10:45 PM

Primary Politics

For depth of political coverage, it's hard to beat The Politico and politico.com. Since editors John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei launched the upstart Web site last year, it has quickly ramped up the quality and thoroughness of its coverage. For an
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:34 PM

Flames on Planes

Reporter Phil Williams of WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville used the Freedom of Information Act to do an investigative story of national significance. Williams obtain Federal Aviation Administration videos and reports indicating that two kinds of wiring commonly
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Friday, April 18, 2008 8:00 AM

Wartime Perspectives

For a daily dose of hard-nosed reporting on the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the troops who've served there, check out the Military Times and its kin at the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy Times.
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Monday, April 07, 2008 8:30 AM

Autism Alert

CNN and its partners at Time and Parenting magazines have put together an impressive package on autism. "Autism: Unravelling the Mystery" features more than two dozen print stories and videos along with an audio slideshow. Some of the highlights
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:00 AM

Bad Care for Soldiers, Flight School for Terrorists?

I'm finally catching up to a couple of excellent network news investigations. In "A Question of Care: Military Malpractice?" Byron Pitts of CBS News explores accusations that military doctors frequently misdiagnose the illnesses of American troops. Pitts
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Monday, March 17, 2008 8:30 AM

Small Town Lives

Boyd Huppert of KARE 11 News in Minneapolis has crafted a wonderful series about opportunities and tribulations in rural America. His "Four Corners" project takes us to the Grand Portage Reservation and the towns of Northcote, Luverne and Caledonia in
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:40 AM

Alarming Situation

Josh Bernstein of KNXV ABC-15 in Phoenix reveals that Arizona's nine state fire inspectors often go many years without checking some of the state's schools. One town's schools hadn't been inspected in seven years, he reports in "School Fire Inspections
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Monday, January 14, 2008 9:00 AM

Children on Drugs

Last week PBS' Frontline ran a powerful story by producer, writer and director Marcela Gaviria about the steep increase in psychiatric medicines that children are receiving. "The Medicated Child" explores the possible impact on kids of
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Friday, January 11, 2008 9:00 AM

Hospital Losses

Patients regularly leave a Denver hospital with their health improved but their belongings missing, Deborah Sherman of KUSA TV reports. Sherman's "Denver Health Saves Lives but Loses Patients' Valuables" reveals that Denver Health Medical Center
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:00 AM

The Fire Next Time

The most popular kind of smoke detector does a poor job of alerting people to slow-burning fires, reports Bob Segall of WTHR-TV 13 in Indianapolis. Segall's "Deadly Delay" series reveals that the ionization smoke detectors used in 80 percent
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:30 AM

Best Gems of 2007

When we sat down to create the Top 10 News Gems of 2007, we ended up with an initial list of more than 40 favorite stories. We had a hard time deciding among the many outstanding examples of journalism from magazines, broadcast outlets, Web sites and
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