How Are You Using ChangeTracker?
A few weeks back, we launched ChangeTracker, a tool that keeps an eye on White House Web sites and sends alerts when a page changes. We've used it to find a few interesting changes to whitehouse.gov, but we're hoping to hear what you've done with it.
The day ChangeTracker launched, we also wrote up instructions on how you could duplicate it, in the hope that you would set up change trackers to watch other Web sites. This seems to have been a success -- we can see via our logs folks have copied our code more than 50 times. … more…
White House Updates Bush’s Biography: Less Prosperity, More BBQ
ChangeTracker, our handy tool that watches for changes on White House Web sites, noticed wide changes to the whitehouse.gov biography of … more…
Investigative Highlights From the (Closing) Rocky Mountain News
Colorado’s oldest newspaper published its last edition today. So we're taking a bit of space to recognize some of the fine investigative … more…
ChangeTracker: What Else Should We Track?
Last week, we launched ChangeTracker, an application that flags changes to whitehouse.gov, recovery.gov and financialstability.gov.
… more…Critics Say U.S. Radio Program for Darfur Goes Soft on Sudan
It was an inspired idea -- bring independent radio programming to one of the most isolated, war-scarred regions of the world, providing … more…
Where Things Stand: Alhurra
Editor’s note: As part of our year-end coverage, we’re checking in on the latest on each of our in-depth stories.
Alhurra means … more…
Senate Panel Seeks to Reinstate Voice of America Cuts
Earlier this month, we reported that the Voice of America (VOA) was planning to cut seven radio language services. The cuts came partly … more…
Letter From Alhurra’s Parent Company—And Our Response
The Middle East Broadcasting Network, parent company to Alhurra, has sent us a response to our investigation of the U.S.-government … more…
Update: Paper Responds to Alhurra Payment Story
A number of weeks ago, we published a story about payments made by Alhurra, the U.S. government-funded Arabic news channel, to guest … more…
Voice of America to Cut Language Services
The Voice of America plans to eliminate seven radio language services this year, reflecting the Bush administration's emphasis on … more…
Alhurra’s Baghdad Bureau Mired in Controversy
July 22: This post has been corrected.
When news broke in the spring of 2007 that the Iraqi government was holding talks with local … more…
May 05, 2009
California Seeks Stimulus Funds to Close ‘Digital Divide’ Steve Wiegand, Sacramento Bee, May 05, 2009
April 21, 2009
Big Challenges Await Health-Records Transition Jacob Goldstein, Wall Street Journal ($), April 21, 2009
Newspaper Tracks Stimulus Dollars in Wisconsin Katia Bachko, Columbia Journalism Review, April 21, 2009
April 14, 2009
Conversion to Digital Health Records Rarely Seamless Christina Rogers, Detroit News, April 14, 2009
April 07, 2009
Tech Giants Help Clients Tap Stimulus Funds Ben Worthen, Wall Street Journal, April 07, 2009
April 06, 2009
Report: Interior Dept. Failed to Secure Network Brian Krebs, Washington Post, April 06, 2009
During Campaign, Obama Advisers Were Paid Commentators Philip Rucker, Washington Post, April 06, 2009
March 31, 2009
Verizon, AT&T May Turn Down $7.2 Billion Stimulus Molly Peterson, Bloomberg, March 31, 2009
March 25, 2009
Lobbyists Are Winners of Stimulus’ Clean-Tech Push Tim Mullaney, Bloomberg, March 25, 2009
March 24, 2009
Stimulus’ Broadband Rules Spark Debate Ryan Singel, Wired, March 24, 2009
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