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The CCIR is pleased to announce that award-winning Montreal-based investigative journalist and recognized expert in internet reporting, Julian Sher has joined our board of directors. The directors are the governing body of the CCIR and set the general direction of the Centre. Julian makes the move from our advisory board of journalists.
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Perhaps the first time you heard about the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting was around our recent media panel, “Is the Mainstream Media Dying? Can Investigative Reporting Save It? Should It?” held at the National Film Board Mediatheque in Toronto.
The future of watchdog reporting brightens as nonprofit groups organize a new network
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The following column first appeared on www.niemanwatchdog.org June 03, 2009, and is reprinted with permission
Charles Lewis, a longtime innovator in investigative reporting, describes what he calls “a seismic event in the annals of American journalism”—the formation of the new Investigative News Network.
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July 09, 2009







