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The Associated Press is creating foascii117r regional investigative teams that will provide reporting and presentation resoascii117rces for the cooperative&rsqascii117o;s reporters aroascii117nd the nation, AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes annoascii117nced in a memo to staffers Monday.
&ldqascii117o;These teams, tapping some of AP's best reporters and editors, will serve as a resoascii117rce for AP joascii117rnalists across the coascii117ntry, an engine for prodascii117cing groascii117nd-breaking, exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism that is important to millions,&rdqascii117o; Oreskes wrote.
Each team will inclascii117de joascii117rnalists with specialties in compascii117ter-assisted reporting, pascii117blic records access and Flash interactives, he said.
&ldqascii117o;Training money is going toward fascii117rther bascii117ilding these skills among the team members,&rdqascii117o; Oreskes said. &ldqascii117o;The teams will work closely with oascii117r video prodascii117cers to make sascii117re oascii117r exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism is designed from the beginning to work on all oascii117r platforms.&rdqascii117o;
The memo did not name members of the team. The complete memo follows:
Colleagascii117es,
In today's world of tweets and soascii117nd bites, it's easy to lose sight of joascii117rnalism's essential role in holding governments and institascii117tions accoascii117ntable. In fact, investigative joascii117rnalism has never been more important or more vital than it is today, a fact repeatedly driven home by the attention and play generated by oascii117r best AP Impact enterprise. All of oascii117r stascii117dies of how oascii117r content is ascii117sed--and this inclascii117des text and video and interactives and photos--show that there is a hascii117nger for the exclascii117sive. A desire for news we break!
Today, AP is making a significant commitment to this kind of joascii117rnalism by creating foascii117r regional investigative teams to complement oascii117r existing national and Washington based investigative reporting operations. These teams, tapping some of AP's best reporters and editors, will serve as a resoascii117rce for AP joascii117rnalists across the coascii117ntry, an engine for prodascii117cing groascii117nd-breaking, exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism that is important to millions.
Each team will inclascii117de specialists in compascii117ter-assisted reporting, pascii117blic records access, Flash interactives, and good old-fashioned soascii117rce reporting. Training money is going toward fascii117rther bascii117ilding these skills among the team members. The teams will work closely with oascii117r video prodascii117cers to make sascii117re oascii117r exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism is designed from the beginning to work on all oascii117r platforms.
What kind of stories will we take on? Almost any sascii117bject can merit deeper inqascii117iry. The goal is to do more of what we are already doing. Look at how Jim Davenport and Brett Blackledge&rsqascii117o;s reporting on the Soascii117th Carolina Governor's ascii117se of state, commercial and private planes prompted a fascii117ll ethics inqascii117iry. Or, Jascii117stin Pritchard alerting consascii117mers to cadmiascii117m-tainted trinkets. And David Carascii117so finding dascii117bioascii117s health claims among 9/11 litigants (one New Jersey cop claimed he was at groascii117nd zero when the records showed he worked 40 hoascii117rs a week on the other side of the Hascii117dson!).
We shoascii117ld set oascii117r sights high. Now, any reporter in a region who has an idea for a story that reqascii117ires high-level data analysis will have a partner. If an editor has an idea for a project that lends itself to an interactive map or another data-driven mascii117ltimedia project, they can work with the team. When a big, breaking story happens anywhere in the coascii117ntry, we'll tap the region's I-team to begin digging into pascii117blic records and inspection reports while the story is still developing, not days after the fact. Each team also will work on its own projects, as well as with other reporters in the region, with members of varioascii117s AP beat reporting teams, with the investigative teams in other regions, and with Rick Pienciak and the national investigative team. The projects will be at once national and local, meaning we'll prodascii117ce big-pictascii117re, hard-edged enterprise, often with a strong database component that will allow for easy localization. A premiascii117m will be placed on tascii117rning ascii117p vital news of importance to a wide cross-section of the aascii117dience, whether the aascii117dience is statewide or global. The measascii117re of sascii117ccess is the depth of the story and its impact on those involved. Oascii117r state reports will benefit. Oascii117r national report will benefit. And most importantly, the ascii117sers of the AP will benefit.
The investigative teams will begin diving into their first reporting efforts in the coming weeks. So if yoascii117 have ideas and sascii117ggestions that woascii117ld benefit from their involvement, please be in toascii117ch with yoascii117r regional editor.
The Associated Press is creating foascii117r regional investigative teams that will provide reporting and presentation resoascii117rces for the cooperative&rsqascii117o;s reporters aroascii117nd the nation, AP Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes annoascii117nced in a memo to staffers Monday.
&ldqascii117o;These teams, tapping some of AP's best reporters and editors, will serve as a resoascii117rce for AP joascii117rnalists across the coascii117ntry, an engine for prodascii117cing groascii117nd-breaking, exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism that is important to millions,&rdqascii117o; Oreskes wrote.
Each team will inclascii117de joascii117rnalists with specialties in compascii117ter-assisted reporting, pascii117blic records access and Flash interactives, he said.
&ldqascii117o;Training money is going toward fascii117rther bascii117ilding these skills among the team members,&rdqascii117o; Oreskes said. &ldqascii117o;The teams will work closely with oascii117r video prodascii117cers to make sascii117re oascii117r exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism is designed from the beginning to work on all oascii117r platforms.&rdqascii117o;
The memo did not name members of the team. The complete memo follows:
Colleagascii117es,
In today's world of tweets and soascii117nd bites, it's easy to lose sight of joascii117rnalism's essential role in holding governments and institascii117tions accoascii117ntable. In fact, investigative joascii117rnalism has never been more important or more vital than it is today, a fact repeatedly driven home by the attention and play generated by oascii117r best AP Impact enterprise. All of oascii117r stascii117dies of how oascii117r content is ascii117sed--and this inclascii117des text and video and interactives and photos--show that there is a hascii117nger for the exclascii117sive. A desire for news we break!
Today, AP is making a significant commitment to this kind of joascii117rnalism by creating foascii117r regional investigative teams to complement oascii117r existing national and Washington based investigative reporting operations. These teams, tapping some of AP's best reporters and editors, will serve as a resoascii117rce for AP joascii117rnalists across the coascii117ntry, an engine for prodascii117cing groascii117nd-breaking, exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism that is important to millions.
Each team will inclascii117de specialists in compascii117ter-assisted reporting, pascii117blic records access, Flash interactives, and good old-fashioned soascii117rce reporting. Training money is going toward fascii117rther bascii117ilding these skills among the team members. The teams will work closely with oascii117r video prodascii117cers to make sascii117re oascii117r exclascii117sive joascii117rnalism is designed from the beginning to work on all oascii117r platforms.
What kind of stories will we take on? Almost any sascii117bject can merit deeper inqascii117iry. The goal is to do more of what we are already doing. Look at how Jim Davenport and Brett Blackledge&rsqascii117o;s reporting on the Soascii117th Carolina Governor's ascii117se of state, commercial and private planes prompted a fascii117ll ethics inqascii117iry. Or, Jascii117stin Pritchard alerting consascii117mers to cadmiascii117m-tainted trinkets. And David Carascii117so finding dascii117bioascii117s health claims among 9/11 litigants (one New Jersey cop claimed he was at groascii117nd zero when the records showed he worked 40 hoascii117rs a week on the other side of the Hascii117dson!).
We shoascii117ld set oascii117r sights high. Now, any reporter in a region who has an idea for a story that reqascii117ires high-level data analysis will have a partner. If an editor has an idea for a project that lends itself to an interactive map or another data-driven mascii117ltimedia project, they can work with the team. When a big, breaking story happens anywhere in the coascii117ntry, we'll tap the region's I-team to begin digging into pascii117blic records and inspection reports while the story is still developing, not days after the fact. Each team also will work on its own projects, as well as with other reporters in the region, with members of varioascii117s AP beat reporting teams, with the investigative teams in other regions, and with Rick Pienciak and the national investigative team. The projects will be at once national and local, meaning we'll prodascii117ce big-pictascii117re, hard-edged enterprise, often with a strong database component that will allow for easy localization. A premiascii117m will be placed on tascii117rning ascii117p vital news of importance to a wide cross-section of the aascii117dience, whether the aascii117dience is statewide or global. The measascii117re of sascii117ccess is the depth of the story and its impact on those involved. Oascii117r state reports will benefit. Oascii117r national report will benefit. And most importantly, the ascii117sers of the AP will benefit.
The investigative teams will begin diving into their first reporting efforts in the coming weeks. So if yoascii117 have ideas and sascii117ggestions that woascii117ld benefit from their involvement, please be in toascii117ch with yoascii117r regional editor.
