{"id":1004,"date":"2009-01-15T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2015-02-27T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T21:45:40","slug":"bu-launches-investigative-reporting-collaborative","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/bu-launches-investigative-reporting-collaborative\/","title":{"rendered":"BU launches investigative reporting collaborative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University today launched the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR), the nation\u2019s first university-based, multimedia investigative reporting collaborative focused on local and regional issues.<\/p>\n<p>Based in the Journalism Department of BU\u2019s College of Communication, NECIR will produce in-depth investigative news reports with its major media partners. They include the Boston Globe, the region\u2019s most widely circulated newspaper; Boston.com, one of the most widely read newspaper Web sites in the nation; New England Cable News (NECN), the largest, most honored regional cable television station in the country; WBUR-FM, one of the country\u2019s preeminent public radio stations; and New England Ethnic News, a Web-based news service for ethnic media. NECIR also will provide its partners with resources and assistance to help generate more investigative reporting in their newsrooms.<\/p>\n<p>BU journalism students, working as reporter trainees, will help research stories, guided by a faculty of veteran journalists, including center directors and award-winning investigative reporters Joe Bergantino (ex-WBZ-TV) and Maggie Mulvihill (ex-Boston Herald, WBZ-TV); Mitch Zuckoff and Dick Lehr (ex-Boston Globe); Lou Ureneck (ex-Philadelphia Inquirer deputy managing editor); and College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler (ex-Miami Herald editor, Pulitzer winner). A diverse group of Boston public high school students also will be given Center internships.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"\/phpbin\/news\/releases\/display.php?id=1749\">full announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necir-bu.org\/\">New England Center for Investigative Reporting website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University today launched the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR), the nation\u2019s first university-based, multimedia investigative reporting collaborative&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[437,358],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1004\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}