If you missed the watchdog reporting webinar given by Mike Tharp earlier this month, you can check out the PowerPoint and the recorded webinar here.
Here's the watchdog reporting PowerPoint presented by Mike Tharp, managing editor of the award-winning Merced Sun-Star in California. The newspaper won a First Amendment award from APME last year, and has won numerous other watchdog awards. Tharp took us through the projects, with takeaways from the reporters who worked on them.
And here's the video of the watchdog webinar.
Jean Hodges served as a reporter and editor for more than 20 years and led groundbreaking projects that won national acclaim before coming to GateHouse to launch the company's news service. She worked most recently at the Chicago Sun-Times' Daily Southtown, covering the south side and south suburbs of Chicago. Before that she worked at the Killen (Texas) Daily Herald, the Clovis (N.M.) News Journal and the Ely Standard in Cambridgeshire, England. She now works with GateHouse news organizations on content strategies, Web initiatives, plus she leads training programs such as webinars and LEDE, GateHouse's leadership program.