Center for Investigative Reporting

Type: Organization

Name: Center for Investigative Reporting

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 33 mins ago - 2 reports

Boy Scouts: Gays Okay. Treehuggers Not So Much.

The board that governs the Boy Scouts of America plans to on a proposal to on gay members. But while the organization may soon welcome gay scouts, they are apparently not so welcoming of treehuggers. The Center for Investigative Reporting on the Scouts ... [Published Mother Jones - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Gay, Kate Sheppard, Center for Investigative Reporting, Pico, Boy Scouts of America

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Chuck Hagel

Michaud: Backlog of veterans' claims 'unacceptable'

WASHINGTON – With Memorial Day around the corner, lawmakers on Capitol Hill stepped up their efforts to pressure the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs to address a bureaucratic backlog that has some veterans waiting years to receive disability ... [Published Waterville Morning Sentinel - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Mike Michaud, Eric Shinseki, Chuck Hagel, Defoliant, Center for Investigative Reporting

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Delta Chi

Pubradio contenders dominate radio division of Sigma Delta Chi Awards

Public radio reporters took all nine awards for radio reporting in this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which recognize outstanding reporting on radio, TV and the Web by national and local news organizations.NPR’s Ina Jaffe, Quinn O’Toole and Steven Drummond ... [Published Current Online - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Delta Chi, Sigma, Integrity, John Ryan, Center for Investigative Reporting

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 reports

Local Veterans Face Long Waits for VA Benefits

Returning veterans are now facing a new enemy at home--long wait times for their disability claims.The waiting times started increasing in 2010 when U.S. troops were withdrawn from Iraq causing a dramatic uptick in first-time filers, according to the ... [Published Oak Park-River Forest Patch - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Center for Investigative Reporting, Eric Shinseki, Baltimore

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Open Society Institute

The Smoking Gun in the IRS Scandal, Part One

Jeffrey Lordâs story in the American Spectator about a âsmoking gunâ in the IRS scandal has backfired. HeâThe media and Congress are sleuthing for some hint that Mr. Obama picked up the phone and sicced the tax dogs on his enemies,â Strassel commented. ... [Published Accuracy in Media - May 22 2013]

Entities: Smoking Gun, White House, Jeffrey Lord, Open Society Institute, National Treasury Employees Union

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

K12 Inc

Internal Recording Reveals K12 Inc. Struggled to Comply With Florida Law

The for-profit online educator knew of teacher certification problems in Florida for years.The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and State Impact Florida have obtained internal emails and a recording of a company meeting that provide new insight ... [Published Caribbean Today - May 21 2013]

Entities: K12 Inc, Certification, Center for Investigative Reporting

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Bain Capital LLC

Reading Beyond Headlines

Blog: Confessions of a Community College DeanInvestigative reporting is great, when it makes the story fit the facts. It’s a lot less great when it simply ignores facts and tells a story that has nothing to do with them.The New England Center for Investigative ... [Published Inside Higher Ed - May 21 2013]

Entities: Bain Capital LLC, Goldwater Institute, Benjamin Ginsberg, Holyoke Community College

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Big Changes Coming To Major Local Newspaper

The Center for Investigative Reporting will kill its Bay Citizen and California Watch news entities, folding them into its CIR brand and focusing on stories that “transcend geography.”The move, announced May 20 by Executive Director Robert Rosenthal, ... [Published Huffington Post - May 21 2013]

Entities: Center for Investigative Reporting, Acquisition

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Fundraisers get Assembly’s juiciest jobs

In May 2012 and again in June, Speaker John A. Pérez wrote memos to Democrats in the Assembly. He wanted millions in campaign cash to win a handful of key races.At stake, Pérez wrote, was their party’s control of the Assembly – and, as it turned out, ... [Published Riverside Press Enterprise - May 21 2013]

Entities: Leadership, Center for Investigative Reporting, Toni Atkins, Mariko Yamada, Fundraising

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Local college costs are up, except for two schools

Others cite reasons for administration growthAt WPI, which held its graduation on the Quad May 11, officials take issue with federal data that shows the number of administrators grew by 647 percent in 25 years. Tracy Hassett, vice president for human ... [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - May 20 2013]

Entities: College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, Barry Maloney, Fitchburg State University

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 3 reports

Massachusetts colleges, saying they're trying to hold down costs, add administrators 3 times faster than students

TweetSource:Massachusetts universities and colleges that say they’re trying to hold down costs have increased their number of administrators three times faster than their number of students, according to federal data analyzed by the New England Center ... [Published University Business - May 19 2013]

Entities: Center for Investigative Reporting, England, Teaching

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Berkeley Assemblymember Nancy Skinner Pays to Play with Democrats in the California Legislature

PM The Sunday Chronicle headlined a juicy story from the Center for Investigative Reporting over the weekend: On the CIR website, this was the title: And Berkeleyans will be interested to learn some information that for some reason was cut from the Chronâs ... [Published Berkeley Daily Planet - May 17 2013]

Entities: Center for Investigative Reporting, Lance Williams, Loni Hancock

Quotes

"It's exciting for us to be able to address what has been a vacuum in San Francisco for a long time" CIR Executive Director Robert Rosenthal, addressing the need to strengthen local coverage, told us last year

"One powerful newsroom" pulls back from its San Francisco roots [Published San Francisco Bay Guardian - May 20 2013]

"The demands of educating students haven't gotten less. They've gotten more" said Matt Hamill, senior vice president of the National Association of College and University Business Officers

Bay State colleges and universities add administrators faster than they do students [Published South Coast Today - May 19 2013]

..."You can't always claim that what you'll create will be a seminal film," he said, "but you can say that if we don't make it important, then it is probably not worth doing. That goes to the heart of what we should be doing in public broadcasting all the time. That should be the test of why we're here and what we do. You ask hard questions of the subject, and you make demands of the producers, so that they'll go out with those in mind. In return, we give them the time to do it right."

Keeping Frontline on the Firing Line [Published PBS - May 18 2013]

More Content

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'Who Took Down Stockton?' Documentary on TYTInv... [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - 7 hours ago]
Michaud: Backlog of veterans' claims 'unaccepta... [Published Waterville Morning Sentinel - 13 hours ago]
Boy Scouts: Gays Okay. Treehuggers Not So Much. [Published Mother Jones - 14 hours ago]
Boy Scouts: Gays Okay. Treehuggers Not So Much. [Published Mojo Feed \| Mother Jones - 15 hours ago]
Pubradio contenders dominate radio division of ... [Published Current Online - 19 hours ago]
Local Veterans Face Long Waits for VA Benefits [Published Oak Park-River Forest Patch - 21 hours ago]
VA Excludes Some Benefits From Promise to Fix B... [Published NBC Bay Area - 21 hours ago]
The Smoking Gun in the IRS Scandal, Part One [Published Accuracy in Media - May 22 2013]
Roth retires after 45 years, Leonard takes helm... [Published Current Online - May 21 2013]
Internal Recording Reveals K12 Inc. Struggled t... [Published Caribbean Today - May 21 2013]
Reading Beyond Headlines [Published Inside Higher Ed - May 21 2013]
Big Changes Coming To Major Local Newspaper [Published Huffington Post - May 21 2013]
Fundraisers get Assembly’s juiciest jobs [Published Riverside Press Enterprise - May 21 2013]
Center for Investigative Reporting to streamlin... [Published Current Online - May 20 2013]
"One powerful newsroom" pulls back from its San... [Published San Francisco Bay Guardian - May 20 2013]
CIR, California Watch, Bay Citizen Consolidate ... [Published Editor & Publisher - May 20 2013]
CIR rebrands California Watch, Bay Citizen [Published Poynter Institute - May 20 2013]
Local college costs are up, except for two schools [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - May 20 2013]
Massachusetts colleges, saying they're trying t... [Published University Business - May 19 2013]
Several Bay State colleges say federal figures ... [Published MassLive - May 19 2013]
Locally, costs up except for two schools [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - May 19 2013]
Bay State colleges and universities add adminis... [Published South Coast Today - May 19 2013]
It's National Hamburger Month: Where are Arling... [Published Arlington VA Patch - May 18 2013]
Keeping Frontline on the Firing Line [Published PBS - May 18 2013]
Berkeley Assemblymember Nancy Skinner Pays to P... [Published Berkeley Daily Planet - May 17 2013]
“If you can’t make it important, it’s probably ... [Published Current Online - May 17 2013]
Traffic Stops Become Immigration Stops [Published NBC Philadelphia - May 17 2013]
Our Voice: Assembly positions shouldn't be for ... [Published Palm Springs Desert Sun - May 17 2013]
Anti-Obama filmmaker charges harassment by IRS [Published WorldNetDaily - May 17 2013]
SPECIAL REPORT: How the VA's backlog of claims ... [Published WECT TV-6 - May 17 2013]

Blogs

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Boy Scouts: Gays Okay. Treehuggers Not So Much. [Published Mojo Feed \| Mother Jones - 15 hours ago] The board that governs the Boy Scouts of America plans to vote on Thursday on a proposal to lift the ban on gay members. But while the organization may soon welcome gay scouts, they are apparently not so welcoming of treehuggers. The Center for ...
San Francisco bus ads condemn Israeli apartheid... [Published Mondoweiss - May 11 2013] (Crossposted at Jewish Voice for Peace blog Muzzlewatch ) American Muslims for Palestine launched an ad campaign this week on San Francisco buses condemning Israeli apartheid. Predictably, local branches of the Anti-Defamation League and the ...
Metal Gear Rising’s prediction of a privatized ... [Published Venturebeat - May 07 2013] Michael shows us how the privatized police force in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's may not be so far-fetched at first glance. But I'm not so sure about those cyborgs and walking tanks ... .This post has been edited by the GamesBeat staff. Opinions by ...
Bay Area Man Loses Home To Foreclosure Despite ... [Published The Home Equity Theft Reporter Cases & Articles - May 05 2013] In San Francisco, California, the Center For Investigative Reporting and NBC Bay Area report:Joji Thomas was desperate to save his home. The San Francisco mechanical engineer sold his car, tapped into his wife’s savings and begged friends for money. ...
Veteran Disability Benefit Wait Times Up 2,000%... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 03 2013] The Center for Investigative Reporting’s (CIR) review of internal Veterans Affairs documents reveals that the number of veterans waiting for disability compensation has increased 2000% under President Barack Obama. “The ranks of veterans waiting ...

Audio/Video

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'Who Took Down Stockton?' Documentary on TYTInv... [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - 7 hours ago]

Press Releases

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The Washington Post becomes first news organiza... [Published CisionWire - English - Jan 30 2013]