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Colombia's Newsroom Council (CdR in Spanish), an investigative journalism organization created in 2007 with the Knight Center's assistance, launched the new site this week. CdR's project coordinator, Miriam Forero, says the site's goal is to offer a variety of information about investigative journalism, including expert opinions, debates, publications, documents, and videos, among other resources.

The Investigative Reporting Workshop, a project of the School of Communication at American University, addresses this fundamental issue for democracy in two important ways: * By conducting significant investigative journalism projects on a national and international scale. * By researching and experimenting with new models for creating and delivering investigative projects. The Workshop was formally approved by the university in the Spring of 2008 and began publishing original projects in the Spring of 2009.

California Watch, a nonprofit and independent investigative reporting team, exposes injustice, waste, mismanagement, wrongdoing, questionable practices, and corruption so that those responsible can be held to account and so the public can be armed with the information needed to debate solutions and spark change.

Investigative reporting funded by foundations

This story is an example of how journalism can bring stories to light that otherwise would be lost in anonymity, prompt discussion, enlist help for disadvantaged persons, and possibly even trigger policy change.

"We've written extensively about "hot news" in the past. The doctrine has never gone away, though it has always been quite limited (New York state is one of the few places it is regularly recognized by the courts). It sounds like something archaic, but think for a moment how it might apply to bloggers, aggregators, Facebook posters, and even Twitter users today. If you think this stuff doesn't matter to the news business, then you haven't been paying attention. This isn't about copyright; it's about control of the facts."