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The CAR Conference hotel deadline is quickly approaching.
The 2010 Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Conference is quickly approaching. Make your plans and register TODAY! Last year, participants were scrambling to find a hotel room after the room block had filled. This year we are in Phoenix during Spring Training, and hotel rooms and rates outside our block can be higher than our discounted rate. …
Read MoreHead of D.C. Metro system resigned
On January 14, the general manager of Washington D.C.’s Metro system announced he is resigning, bringing to five the number of top executives who are leaving or have been reassigned in response to a Washington Post series on safety lapses in the nation’s second-busiest subway system.
Read MoreMany children lack second dose of H1N1 flu vaccine
As many as 80% of children in some states who received a first dose of H1N1 vaccine haven’t received a booster dose that’s necessary to fully protect them from swine flu, according to a USA Today review of immunization registry data from 10 states. State health officials are worried growing public complacency could put these…
Read MoreFeds make collection firms open debt sale records
Isaac Wolf of Scripps Howard News Service in Washington reports that “federal authorities have issued a sweeping order for some of the nation’s largest debt-collecting companies to open their books. In its first investigation of the $60 billion consumer debt resale market, the Federal Trade Commission has directed the nine companies that buy the most second-hand…
Read MoreFriday, January 15 is postmark deadline for 2009 IRE Awards
The deadline for submitting entries for the IRE Awards is this Friday, January 15. All entries must be postmarked by midnight on Friday. As you review work from 2009, don’t forget that we have added a new category to the contest that honors breaking news investigations. It is open to all journalists, regardless of media…
Read MoreAthletic departments thrive on subsidies while universities struggle
“More than $800 million in student fees and university subsidies are propping up athletic programs at the nation’s top sports colleges, including hundreds of millions in the richest conferences,” according to a report by Jack Gillum, Jodi Upton and Steve Berkowitz of USA Today. At the same time, many of these school are facing financial…
Read MoreExecutive at housing nonprofit pulled in $685,000 in 2009
A watchdog report by Ellen Gabler of The Chicago Tribune revealed that Christine M.J. Oliver, the president of the nonprofit Chicago Dwellings Association, was paid about $685,00 in 2008. Experts say this amount was nearly three times what other executives were paid at housing nonprofits in the area.
Read MoreMistreatment of inmates at Chino prison investigated
KPCC.org, the Web site for Southern California Public Radio, investigated allegations of inmate mistreatment at the California Institution for Men in Chino following a bloody 11-hour riot Aug. 8, 2009. The riot left some 200 men injured. It took authorities until sunrise to contain the violence. In interviews and in letters obtained by KPCC, inmates…
Read MoreLobbyist investigated for ‘straw donor’ scam
Chuck Neubauer of The Washington Times reports that “superlobbyist” Paul Magliocchetti “is now the focus of a federal investigation into whether he made illegal campaign contributions by reimbursing people, or ‘straw donors,’ who made contributions in their names to his favored candidates – helping the lobbyist avoid federal limits on his personal donations.“
Read MoreStimulus funds go to troubled corporations
Will Evans of California Watch found large corporations in California are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus dollars despite a history of environmental violations and a host of other legal problems.
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