A panel of journalists discusses the benefits of collaboration in investigative journalism. They discuss their experiences collaborating with other news organizations, and explore what makes a partnership work, and what can potentially kill a working relationship.
This panel features Mark Katches (Center for Investigative Reporting), Susanne Reber (NPR), Paul Steiger (ProPublica), Linda Winslow (PBS NewsHour) and Ann Derry (The New York Times. The panel is moderated by David Boardman of The Seattle Times.
Bio
David Boardman
Dave Boardman serves as executive editor of The Seattle Times. He has oversight and responsibility for the news department of Washington state's largest newspaper, and for its Web site, seattletimes.com. As an editor for The Times, Boardman has directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning team projects and edited six other stories that were Pulitzer finalists.
Before joining The Times in 1983, Boardman was a reporter and editor at several papers in the Northwest, and worked on a construction project in Liberia, West Africa.
Boardman is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has a graduate degree from the University of Washington.
Ann Derry
Ann Derry is Editorial Director for Video and Television at The New York Times. She oversees web video and television programming for The Times. She also developed the web video unit in the Times newsroom as well as the documentary television unit at NYTimes Television. She serves as executive producer for all Times doc programs.
Mark Katches
Mark Katches is the editorial director for California Watch.
Previously, Katches built and ran investigative teams at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Orange County Register. He was the primary editor of Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both 2008 and 2010 and has edited or managed three other stories that have been Pulitzer finalists since 2004. Projects he has edited have also won two George Polk Awards and two Scripps-Howard National Journalism Awards as well the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Sigma Delta Chi Award and the National Headliner Award. In 2001, he was part of a reporting team that won the Gerald Loeb and IRE awards for a series of stories detailing the rising profits from the human tissue trade.
A former adjunct professor at USC, Katches served on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and still oversees the IRE mentorship program. Katches also serves on the advisory board of the Texas Tribune.
Susanne Reber
Susanne Reber joined NPR News in January 2010 to become its first Deputy Managing Editor of Investigations. Reber leads NPR News' Investigative Unit and works across all news desks and programs to build upon, and strengthen the commitment to, NPR's investigative work.
Reber brings to NPR the experience of building an investigative program at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where she led its news investigative unit since 2003. At NPR, in addition to managing a core investigative team, she is working with beat and field reporters across the newsroom and partnering with other non-profit news organizations doing high-level investigative work.
Reber had a distinguished career at the CBC, where she started as an editor and reporter in 1986. Under her leadership, the CBC News investigative unit had a prolific run, reporting about the excessive use of Tasers by police, safety concerns with prescription drugs for children and the elderly and the dangerous conditions in Canada's workplaces overlooked by inspections - earning the unit the 2008 Michener Award, two annual prizes for the top Investigative Story from the Canadian Association of Journalists, as well as awards from the Online News Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors and RTNDA.
Paul Steiger
Paul Steiger is the editor-in-chief, president and chief executive of ProPublica.
Mr. Steiger is also the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to promote press freedom by working for the rights of journalists world-wide. He is a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, which supports transformative programs in areas including journalism and community development.
Mr. Steiger began his journalism career in 1966 as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The Wall Street Journal. In 1968, he moved to the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer and, in 1971, he transferred to that paper's Washington, D.C., bureau as an economics correspondent. He returned to Los Angeles in 1978 to serve as the Times' business editor. In 1983, Mr. Steiger rejoined the Journal as an assistant managing editor in New York and became deputy managing editor in 1985. He was appointed managing editor in 1991 and served in that role until May 2007. Under his leadership, The Wall Street Journal's reporters and editors won 16 Pulitzer Prizes. He served as editor-at-large of the Journal through year end 2007, when he assumed his present position.
Linda Winslow
Linda Winslow was named the executive producer of the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" in November 2005. A key member of the NewsHour management team, Winslow's association with Jim Lehrer and Robin MacNeil dates back to her role as producer for the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT). She produced their seminal Watergate coverage in 1973, and also produced PBS's live coverage of the House Judiciary Committee's Presidential Impeachment hearings, which was anchored by Jim. Winslow was one of the original producers of the half-hour MacNeil/Lehrer Report from 1975 to 1978, and she rejoined the program as the deputy executive producer in 1983 to facilitate its transition to a one-hour format.
From 1978 to 1983, Winslow was vice president in charge of news and public affairs for WETA-26/Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for PBS coverage of Washington's major news events, as well as for the weekly series "Washington Week in Review" and "The Lawmakers."
Winslow graduated with high honors in English from Michigan State University and received her Master of Science degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through media such as pamphlets, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, radio, film, television, and books. The term was originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, but in the late 20th century it came to include electronic media as well. It is sometimes used to refer to writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation. Colleges and universities confer degrees in journalism and sponsor research in related fields such as media studies and journalism ethics.
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