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Saturday, July 5, 2008

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Another Nonprofit News Launch

ProPublica, the much-hyped not-for-profit investigative news startup, took the wraps off its Web site Tuesday.

Take Your Time Reading Online

Readers are willing to spend more time with a story online instead of the print version, a senior New York Times editor said recently.

The Doubt Makers

By funding its own research, industry has raised unwarranted doubts about a range of scientific issues — from the risks of tobacco to the reality of climate change — delaying response to public dangers for decades. Can scientists and journalists learn to beat the doubt industry before our most serious problems beat us all?

Making International News

Cristi Hegranes and her nonprofit train women around the world so they can help their communities — through journalism.

More Information and Less Knowledge Than Ever

Ted Gup, a journalism professor at Case Western Reserve University, presents an elegy for the information age in the latest edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, bemoaning the current-affairs illiteracy on display with each new semester's offerings of undergrads.

Plagiarism and Fraud: A Writers’ Doping Scandal

Recent high-profile instances of plagiarism reflect — and possibly are a cause of — a rise in such activity among college students. The cut-and-paste culture of the Internet is also a factor.

Why Miller-McCune and Why Now?

Noted journalist James Fallows helps us explain our new magazine and Web site.

The Bottom Line for Nonprofit News

Across America, nonprofit Web sites are trying to keep public interest journalism alive at the local level. But to provide what print newspapers increasingly do not, these digitized nonprofits must overcome the challenge facing every startup: Eventually, they have to break even.

‘Journalism Without Journalists’

A Shorenstein Center Fellow sheds light on what’s working in the booming area of citizen journalism.