"It's a bleak picture, with a few bright spots," said Anne Urda, the Law360 editor in chief, who helped oversee the report.
"The No. 1 goal was to restore confidence in the Fire Department's statistics in the eyes of the public and city leaders," said Fire Commissioner Alan Skobin, who helped oversee the report.
For more on how the Guardian's editors have overseen the reporting of the NSA stories, see this informative interview on the Charlie Rose Show from last week with Gibson and Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger:.
Ben Bradlee, the former Washington Post editor who oversaw the reporting that brought down a president, united the worlds of journalism and politics in tribute on Tuesday after he died at the age of 93.
"It's a good-sized decline for one year," said Stephanie Ventura, the demographer who oversaw the report.
"It's very easy to be mislead by a few high-profile cases," Martha M Lauzen, who oversaw the report, said.
Nationwide, monitoring and reporting have also increased over the last 10 years, said Sarah Chasis, a senior lawyer with the council in Washington who has overseen the report since the beginning.
"There are some trends that are improving but more needs to be done," Roger Shaw, chairman of the scientific panel that oversaw the report card, told Guardian Australia.
sealed MF Global's fate," Representative Randy Neugebauer, a Republican from Texas who is overseeing the report as chairman of the oversight panel, said in a statement.
"She completely understands what is at stake here," said Orville Schell, the director of the Centre on US-China Relations, who oversaw the report.
