Sentence examples for watchdog journalism from inspiring English sources
Founded more than two decades ago, the Southern Weekly was long considered a pioneer of boundary-pushing investigations known in China as "watchdog journalism".
At a ceremony in Atlanta organised by the Online News Association, the Guardian was awarded the Gannett Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism and the Watchdog Journalism Award.
As journalists at both Gawker and The Star celebrated on Thursday, media observers pointed out that the case appeared to highlight the ongoing need in the Internet age of investigative, watchdog journalism to hold public officials accountable.
Traditional watchdog journalism, which has long accepted leaked information in dribs and drabs, has been joined by a new counterculture of information vigilantism that now promises disclosures by the terabyte.
"These awards are significant, not just to our team who have worked relentlessly for months on this story, but because they recognise the importance of difficult watchdog journalism in the public interest".
Under Janine's leadership, the US site has won a range of prestigious awards, including the 2013 Online Journalism Awards for Innovative Investigative Journalism and Watchdog Journalism, the Polk award for national security journalism and AdWeek's Hottest News site award.
His comments were in response to an investigation by the Chicago News Cooperative and Medill Watchdog, a journalism project at Northwestern University.
The survey report, which was released today, finds that "a significant minority have also carried out local watchdog investigative journalism".
The smart grid legislation is one of several bills pushed by Senator Jacobs that benefited clients of his lobbyist father, a review of legislation by Medill Watchdog, a journalism program at Northwestern University, found.
Elected officials at every level in Illinois — from the village board to the state legislature — can use their positions to benefit paying clients or even family members, according to an examination of thousands of documents by Medill Watchdog, a journalism program at Northwestern University.
Several of the winners said the awards affirmed the watchdog role of journalism as guardians of the public trust.
