Course blog for SMU's watchdog journalism class, taught by Profs. Flournoy and Batsell in spring 2012.
#MuckReads
Vote here for your favorite investigative story of the week every Sunday.
Batsell will inform you Sunday night if you’ll summarize the winning #muckreads entry at the start of class on Tuesday. If selected, consider the following questions:
- What’s the upshot of the story?
- What impact is it having (or will it have)?
- Does it empower readers with online tools to dig deeper? How so?
Here are the #MuckReads of the Week for the Spring 2012 semester:
Week One: The New York Times, “The iEconomy: How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work” (with awesome explanatory video)
Week Two: The Los Angeles Times, “Brown ordered firing of regulator who took hard line on oil firms”
Week Three: The New Yorker, “Dept. of Medical Ethics: Guinea-pigging”
Week Four: Austin American-Statesman, “Telemarketers turn charity into profits”
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