ProPublica

So the ProPublica Web site has gone live. And there's a section where you can learn about their contributors!

There are biographies of the site's stars, of course, like Paul Steiger lately of The Wall Street Journal and Stephen Engelberg, formerly of the Oregonian and the Times.  read more »

ProPublica, the newest player on the investigative journalism beat, aims to produce “the very special piece,” in the words of Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, who will oversee the operation as editor in chief. To do so, Mr. Steiger will deploy two dozen reporters and editors. He’ll then offer that work as exclusives to news outlets around the country. “We would submit to their vetting process, their editing process, their legal vetting,” Mr. Steiger told Off The Record.  read more »