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Posted in Announcements
AP names 17 new statehouse reporters in Report for America collaboration
AP today announced the 17 journalists hired to cover statehouses across the U.S. as part of its collaboration with Report for America.
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Posted in Behind the News
Following the paper trail to group aiding abusive priests
In a memo to staff, Managing Editor Brian Carovillano outlined how shoe leather reporting and Freedom of Information requests revealed a small nonprofit in Michigan that was serving as a rapid-response team for hundreds of priests accused of sex abuse: