The Washington Post announces plans to expand its investigative journalism
Source: Washington Post
The Washington Post announced today a major expansion of its investigative journalism, building on the sharp increase in staff it has dedicated to accountability work over the past several years. Overall, the initiative will add 10 staff positions to The Post’s newsroom.
“The Post has a long and distinguished history of groundbreaking investigative journalism,” said Martin Baron, executive editor of The Post. “This expansion is very much in that tradition, and it accentuates one of our newsroom’s greatest assets. Our goal is to further strengthen an already robust Investigative Unit and to continue distributing investigative firepower throughout the newsroom.”
The Post is supplementing its Investigative Unit with five staffers, including a reporter and additional editor for fast-turnaround work, a reporter to pursue longer-term projects, a researcher and a FOIA specialist who will partner with all newsroom departments to pursue journalistic opportunities in federal, state and local public records. Most recently, The Post added a data reporting specialist to the team.
In January 2017, The Post doubled the size of the Investigative Unit by creating an eight-person “rapid-response” team that collaborates with all newsroom departments on accountability journalism that demands greater speed. In the team’s first year, it partnered on Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2019/06/20/washington-post-announces-plans-expand-its-investigative-journalism/?utm_term=.105d026a59df
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