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What investigative report would you like to see done?

There are a few movements afoot in the academic world to remake investigative journalism. The worry is that as Big Media companies cut back on reporting resources, less investigative work is being done and the Internet should be a place for a new style of in-depth journalism, perhaps combining professionals and amateurs. One such project is NewAssignment.net, led by NYU’s Jay Rosen and funded in part by Craig Newmark of Craigslist. Another project is the sprawling News21 initiative by five journalism schools and the Carnegie and Knight foundations. (Much more on that later at MediaShift…) But Rosen has put out the call — what ideas do you have for investigative reports? What do you think journalists should cover more in-depth? The oil industry? The government? Rising university tuitions? Share your ideas in the comments below, and I’ll send them along to Rosen and others to consider — plus, you’ll get showcased in next week’s Your Take Roundup.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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  • My sister and I were both targeted in 2003. I only began figuring out what was really happening over the past year. Unfortunately I hadn't figured it out early enough and my sister died in 2006. The stress destroyed her health and she got cancer.

    I am ashamed that I was never educated about this phenomenon especial because there is so much information out there about it but it seems that the public is continuously misdirected with entertainment and propaganda so we are always ignorant about so many important things.

    I too would like to see PBS Investigate and expose the tactics used on targeted individuals.

  • My sister and I were both targeted in 2003. I only began figuring out what was really happening over the past year. Unfortunately I hadn't figured it out early enough and my sister died in 2006. The stress destroyed her health and she got cancer.

    I am ashamed that I was never educated about this phenomenon especial because there is so much information out there about it but it seems that the public is continuously misdirected with entertainment and propaganda so we are always ignorant about so many important things.

    I too would like to see PBS Investigate and expose the tactics used on targeted individuals.

  • In San Francisco where many apartment units are rent-controlled. it is not a far stretch of the imagination to suspect that greedy and unscrupulous landlords would use electronic harassment as a way of getting rid of disabled, elderly, people with children, or any other tenants unable to pay market rate or above market rate rents.
    I am a disabled senior who has been aware of an intense, low frequency, high energy type disturbance in my apartment. This is used most of the time at night waking me up numerous times and preventing me from getting an adequate night's sleep. I have walked outside of my apartment and gone to other floors in the building and have not detected another disturbance like the one from which I suffer.
    I have visited a few websites having information about Directed Energy Weapons and was both amazed and frightened by what I read because of the authenticity of the information and similarity to the features of the type of disturbance I experience.
    It makes sense to me that it is very possible for someone with the motive, money, and means to employ Directed Energy Weapons to electronically harass a tenant who is "undesirable" because she/he is unable to pay more than double the rent paid for a rent controlled unit.

  • I would also like to see the subject of gangstalking brought out into the light. My son and I were gangstalked after my late parents' probate attorney took over and wanted us out of the home we inherited. He succeeded, and on a cross-country trip my son and I were terrorized, poisoned, and almost killed ( mobbed by cars)
    Even our cat was stolen from us.

  • Hi - I'm one of thousands of targets of "Organized Harassment". It has been referred to has the "Silent Holocaust" or "murder without consequence". It is used for obstruction of justice, hindering prosecution aka a whistle blower, for vengence and even for sport. I could not believe this until it happened to be and even then could not believe it. I am still have difficulty in accepting the technology that is referred to as electronic harassment and that I have experienced. It's simply too much. My life has been one hideous shock after another - and this is being reported by many many citizens of this country. We are screaming for help and seem to be disbursed throughout the US. Living in NY, just north of the City, I am astounded by this "third world" experience. There are many legitimate targets, some or what's called "plants", some have gone over the edge. Please help get this out. I live at 15 Round Hill Road in Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. My emails and phone calls are often diverted. I am intelligent and well spoken. Targets are fore shadowed and smeared. This must be exposed. It is a hideous assault on The Rule of Law and America's Justice System.
    Thank you.

  • Press Announcement / Friday, April 16, 2010 / Microwave Weapons

    Greetings!

    Everyone feel free to distribute the following press announcement to national and local media - TV, radio, newspapers about our upcoming press conference. We are seeing the beginnings of a developing news story regarding organized stalking and electronic torture. In the past few months we've had 2 mainstream TV shows, 2 local TV news stories (San Antonio,TX and Louisville,KY), and several local newspaper articles featuring our issues. We're on a roll because of everyone's efforts at exposing these atrocities. Keep up the great work!

    Derrick Robinson

    Press Announcement

    On Friday, April 16, 2010, the human rights organization, Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance in alliance with Ms. Connie Marshall, candidate for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky will convene a press conference at

    Cornerstone Cottage,

    3799 Bardstown Road (address for directions)
    2201 Sieger Villa Court (mailing address)
    Louisville , KY 40218

    502-777-0926

    info@cornerstonecottageky.com

    ......at 11:30 am,

    to call attention to a new wave of criminal behavior called organized stalking and electronic torture.

    The victims of these covert crimes suffer the effects of mind and body-invasive technologies that have caused great physical, psychological, and emotional harm to many thousands of targeted individuals across the country and the globe.

    The perpetrators of these crimes range from rogue elements of every level of government to corporations to private citizens.

    Not since the late 70's has a serious look been given to the increasing intrusion by the US intelligence agencies into the private lives of American citizens. A congressional hearing and investigation into these covert activities is way overdue. A gathering of engineers, doctors, authors, a psychologist, and human rights activists, to name a few are expected to speak. One of the speakers is a Missouri statehouse representative and one of the guest speakers appeared in an episode last season of Jesse Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory" television series. The importance and prominence of this assembly of individuals signals the rise of a major issue in this country whose time has come to be addressed.

    EVENT SPEAKERS: (in alphabetical order)

    Chris Crowder, Mechanical Engineer
    Dr. John Hall, Anesthesiologist, Author, A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America
    Robert Duncan O'Finioan, former Manchurian Candidate
    Rep. Jim Guest, Missouri House of Representatives
    Cyndie Spanier, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
    Dr. Terry Robertson, Anesthesiologist
    Tim White, Human Rights Activist, Telecommunications Engineer
    Katherine Moore, former Vice-Mayor, Wilmington, NC
    Mary Ann Stratton, Human Rights Activist
    Michael Lauria, commercial airline pilot, ret.
    Joan Germano, Real Estate Agent
    Jo Rabjohn, Author
    Brian Uram, Real Estate Agent

    For more information about this unfolding story, please review the following news stories:

    This is a segment from a recent History Channel documentary called "That's Impossible" about Mind Control, which aired approx. 8/25/09.

    At about 5:30 into this segment, the story begins about a targeted individual,

    Cheryl Welsh who is a victim of modern-day mind control technologies.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBQXdgQRjFc

    Here is a TV news story in San Antonio, Texas about organized stalking perpetrated by covert harassment groups:

    http://www.kens5.com/home/Stalked-drugged-and-raped-Is-it-happening-in-San-Antonio.html

    Local TV newstory from WLKY, Louisville, KY about electronic torture victim Connie Marshall, candidate for mayor

    http://www.wlky.com/politics/22317065/detail.html

    Contact information:

    Connie Marshall, Candidate for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky

    carlenamarshall@yahoo.com

    http://www.justiceforallcitizens.com

    502-322-3449

    Derrick Robinson, President
    Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance

    derrickcrobinson@gmail.com

    http://www.freedomfchs.com

    513-344-4113

    Gerry Duffett

    3358-A McCowan Rd
    Basement
    Scarborough Ontario
    Canada M1V 5P5

    duffett52@yahoo.com,
    gerryduffett@fastmail.ca,

    http://gerryduffett.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general

  • The Stasi movement in America has become very apparent. The victims are being tortured by electronic means and the media does everything possible to whitewash it and cover it up. Perhaps it is because they want to see political change at any price. Or, perhaps it is the moguls that own the media that look forward to a communist/feudal form of government.

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