I'm glad that an alliance of nonprofits are joining hands to create an organization to promote investigative journalism. That's important stuff.
I just wish that their "declaration" kicking off their collaboration read a bit more like a classic declaration and less like the annex of a Department of Commerce IG report. Here's an excerpt from [...]

In his column today on the death of newspapers, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz makes an oft-made point: That without newspapers, the amount of investigative reporting out there in the world will dwindle. To buttress his point, he takes a shot at other media:
Local TV isn't likely to expose a crooked mayor, as the [...]