Tags: investigative reporting
The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

Hugh B. Urban.

For the past half-decade, Scientology has responded to withering attacks with a variety of aggressive and secretive tactics, drawing comparisons to the CIA and FBI. After a recent report alleging the use of violence, however, the church has responded by hiring an ‘independent’ panel of editors and journalists to produce a 20-page assessment of the report. 

Sex Buys the Pulitzer Prize

Louis A. Ruprecht.

Why is the highest journalistic award handing out prizes for reporting on the sexual dalliances of powerful pols? And we wonder why papers are closing their doors?