Brandy Panagos's List: Importance of Seeking News and Reporting It

• "Our mission is helping the public understand how important a free press is to a functioning democracy
• Journalism can be a dangerous business
• journalism isn't easy and that it matters in a free society,

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• These stories helped root out corruption, create better laws and practices, and changed the way we live for the better.
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  Journalism’s crucial role in helping democracy function is sometimes forgotten amid the clamor of partisan debate and the messy nature of the news business
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s year-long series on irregularities in standardized testing revealed that pressure for ever-higher test scores had led to apparent cheating by teachers and school administrators across the nation.
• It took three years of relentless coverage by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, followed by a state investigation, to get school officials to acknowledge that their system had engaged in the worst case of adult-directed school cheating ever detected in the United States.
• This series revealed the harsh, at times deadly conditions under which Chinese workers assembling iPhones and iPads live and work
• As a direct result of the Times series: More than a million workers at the Chinese factories that make Apple’s iPhones and iPads got 25 percent raises. Their working conditions vastly improved after Apple’s supplier plants were opened to outside inspections for the first time.
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• As a result of the Tribune investigation, the U.S. Senate revived toxic chemical reform legislation and California moved to revamp the rules responsible for the presence of dangerous chemicals in furniture sold nationwide.

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• public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy.
• Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
• Ethical journalism treats sources, subjects, colleagues and members of the public as human beings deserving of respect
• The highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public.
• Ethical journalism means taking responsibility for one’s work and explaining one’s decisions to the public.

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• e effects of narco-violence on ordinary people in Honduras.  It laid out the way they have been forced to flee their villages or vacate neighborhoods block by block as drug dealers moved in and took over their homes
• A third striking piece of global reportage was E. Benjamin Skinner’s “The Fishing Industry’s Cruelest Catch.”  It focused on the conditions Indonesian migrant workers encounter fishing in the waters off New Zealand, for New Zealand companies, aboard Korean boats.  A report by academic researchers Christina Stringer and Glenn Simmons, in collaboration with deep sea fishing skipper Daren Coulston, prompted Skinner, a journalist specializing in slavery, to spend six months in several different countries checking out their allegations.
• The result was a gripping story of modern day slavery.

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