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How Are You Using ChangeTracker?

by Brian Boyer, ProPublica - March 10, 2009 7:54 am EDT

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

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White House Updates Bush’s Biography: Less Prosperity, More BBQ

by Brian Boyer, ProPublica - March 6, 2009 5:04 pm EDT

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

by Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica - February 27, 2009 4:30 pm EDT

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?

by Brian Boyer, ProPublica - February 25, 2009 2:29 pm EDT

Last week, we launched ChangeTracker, an application that flags changes to whitehouse.gov, recovery.gov and financialstability.gov.

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Critics Say U.S. Radio Program for Darfur Goes Soft on Sudan

by Sheri Fink, ProPublica - February 2, 2009 2:53 pm EDT

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

by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica - December 24, 2008 10:39 am EDT

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

by Paul Kiel, ProPublica - July 24, 2008 1:35 pm EDT

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

by Eric Umansky, ProPublica - July 22, 2008 10:59 am EDT

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

by Paul Kiel, ProPublica - July 21, 2008 2:03 pm EDT

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

by Paul Kiel, ProPublica - July 9, 2008 12:23 pm EDT

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

by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica - July 8, 2008 9:55 am EDT

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

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