{"id":60587,"date":"2012-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/boston-globe-editor-says-investigative-reporting-will-be-life-raft-of-industry\/"},"modified":"2012-11-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T00:00:00","slug":"boston-globe-editor-says-investigative-reporting-will-be-life-raft-of-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/boston-globe-editor-says-investigative-reporting-will-be-life-raft-of-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe editor says \u2018Investigative Reporting will be life raft of industry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — November 16, 2012 — Three prize-winning journalists told about 150 溏心vlog免费B站 students that investigative journalism is very much alive and even essential in today\u2019s rapidly changing media world.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cJournalism is not dying, it\u2019s evolving,\u201d said Mike Stanton, a Providence Journal<\/i> reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner during a panel discussion Thursday at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Annual Journalism Day. Stanton emphasized that investigative journalism is content readers and viewers can\u2019t get anywhere else. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe panel discussion titled, \u201cIs Investigative Journalism Dead?\u201d also featured 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus Tom Farragher, editor of The Boston Globe<\/i>\u2019s Spotlight Team and Pulitzer Prize winner, and Tim White, who has won two Emmy awards as an investigative reporter for WPRI, Channel 12 in Providence. Journalism Professor Linda Levin moderated the discussion.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cInvestigative reporting is essentially digging up documents and exposing corruption in an unique way,\u201d Farragher said. \u201cI believe it will be the life raft of the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHe advised the journalism students to keep working at the craft. \u201cIf you really care about the journalism business, keep writing. Learn from your mistakes. Never kiss anything off and never refuse an assignment.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen Levin asked the panel members to talk about their favorite stories, White discussed his half-hour documentary on the 1975 Bonded Vault mob robbery in Providence, a case that his late father, Jack, who won a Pulitzer Prize at The Providence Journal<\/i> and who worked at Channel 12, also investigated.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI grew up on that story,\u201d White said. \u201cWhile I was transitioning from WBZ in Boston to Channel 12, my mom gave me a box of my dad\u2019s old stuff. My dad was a great reporter, but he was not very organized.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHe found information about the historic heist and began digging, which led him to discover that a person related to the case and placed in the federal witness protection program had continued to rob banks.<\/p>\n


\n\tBefore he spoke about his favorite story, Farragher said he had to issue a brief commercial on behalf of URl. \u201cThis is where I learned journalism and that it could be fun and that we can make a difference. That remains true today. I am still jazzed up by it like I was when I started here. This (journalism) program has allowed me to become what I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFarragher talked about the Globe<\/i>\u2019s Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church, and which resulted in the removal of Cardinal Bernard Law as archbishop of Boston.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI was a member of the parish council in my church and one Sunday, after Mass, Monsignor Eugene McNamara pointed to me, and called me over. He asked me, what are you doing to us?\u2019\u201d Farragher said. \u201cI think he had the question backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nStanton, who wrote about the reign of Buddy Cianci as mayor of Providence in his book, The Prince of Providence, talked about the hours and hours he spent with a colleague going through real estate records at Central Falls City Hall, as they investigated a kickback scheme involving the Central Falls mayor and his childhood friend. The city was being overcharged by the mayor\u2019s friend for boarding up abandon properties for the city.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cBoth of these guys are going to jail soon,\u201d Stanton said.

\nAll three journalists said investigative reporting is expensive and time consuming, and media outlets must commit to it fully for it to serve the public.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt\u2019s not Lindsay Lohan bar hopping the night before,\u201d Stanton said. \u201cIt\u2019s about why does an issue matter, who are the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFarragher told the students that even as a young reporter at small papers he acted like he worked for The New York Times. He also admitted that when he had a reviewed his early work during a stop at his old newspaper, The Gardner News, he found that it wasn\u2019t very good. \u201cI was embarrassed,\u201d he told the students, as he urged them to keep improving.<\/p>\n


\nStanton said many are asking why talk about journalism because no one reads newspapers anymore.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cBut you are entering the field at an exciting time, during which you can use all of the new tools to make investigative journalism essential for all kinds of audiences,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n


\nHe said the nation needs investigative journalism as a check on lies and corruption in government and political process.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cEight billion dollars was just spent on the presidential campaign ads, and they threw a lot of crap out there, and it wasn\u2019t true.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhite advised the students to \u201cread a ton and read the great writers. Write for a greater audience. You are not writing for your boyfriend or your mom. You are a voice for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe second half of the program focused on the question, \u201cOnline News Aggregators: Ethical or Unethical?\u201d The discussion focused on online blogs that use news taken from mainstream news media and the ethical and legal issues regarding this practice. Panelists were: Peter Phipps, managing editor for new media at The Providence Journal<\/i> and an adjunct journalism professor at 溏心vlog免费B站; Linda Henderson, retired library director at The Providence Journal<\/i> and a member of the board of the Online Rhode Island Library Project; Mark Tetreault, an attorney with Barlow, Josephs and Holmes, Providence, with a primary focus on intellectual property law, and Bob Plain, publisher and editor of the blog, Rhode Island\u2019s Future, and a 溏心vlog免费B站 journalism graduate. 溏心vlog免费B站 Journalism Department Chair John Pantalone moderated.<\/p>\n


\nThis press release was written by Tess Povar, an intern in 溏心vlog免费B站’s Department of Communication and Marketing and a public relations and communication studies major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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