Professor James Hollings presents a paper on the role of emotion when whistle-blowers decide to go public with their stories, proposing a theoretical explanation baed on the Interative Reprocessing Model.
Rosemary Armao of the State University of New York at Albany presents a paper on assessing efforts to promote and support investigative journalism at four investigative centers around the world, noting both successess and failures.
Anya Schiffrin of Columbia University in New York City presents a paper on the ways that journalists have done and do investigative reporting on the extractive sector such as mining and oil where are innumerable instances of outright corruption as well as bad practices, where countries fail, for instance, to garner for themselves the full value of their resources and/or when the revenues raised are not used for public purposes in ways that they should. There are more complex stories, exposing how well-intentioned actions can have unintended adverse effects Such reporting is necessary if the media is to fulfill the role of the watchdog, particularly needed in this complex industry.
Jane Regan, professor at the State University of Haiti, presents a paper on the new and innovative techniques that journalists used to monitor and investigative the billions of “reconstruction” dollars that followed offered humanitarian agencies and international businesses the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. She outlines the creation of her efforts and that of an online “alternative” news agency and a community radio training and support association to
launched the Haiti Grassroots Watch partnership.
