Last month, The Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News and Observer launched a full-frontal assault on North Carolina’s booming poultry industry. The coordinated reporting from the papers charged that the industry is “cloaked in secrecy,” even as the Charlotte and Raleigh newspapers themselves decline to share much detail about the special interests that funded the hit...
For the second straight year, the N.C. Press Association acknowledged Carolina Journal’s reporting and commentary in its annual awards. CJ won in the Online Division for articles published in 2018 on carolinajournal.com. CJ Editor-in-Chief Rick Henderson won first place in Editorials, giving him two consecutive first-place finishes in the category. Associate Editor Kari Travis also...
Journalists are criticized today for any number of things. They’re biased and even evil. They invent stories and propagate fake news, an allegation, by the way, that’s as dangerous as it is wrongheaded and ridiculous. That’s not what good journalists do. Period. Good journalists are vital purveyors of information and are indispensable in protecting the...
As Peter Schweizer lays it out, one spouse accepts money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charts American foreign policy.
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson had the courage to question the actions of the Obama administration, and paid for it in myriad ways.
Carolina Journal gets some stories before the mainstream press because we have a larger vision of the role of journalism.
In one form or another, CJ reaches about 200,000 North Carolinians each month.
Political corruption is a creature of power, especially the power created by longtime incumbency, insularity, and lack of competition.
Admittedly, the latest twist in the Randy Parton/Rick Watson saga did show that Parton was capable of producing good theater. He’s just not capable of doing it intentionally.
The lead story in the Sunday, May 27, print version of The News & Observer wasn't written by an N&O reporter or the Associated Press, nor any other supposedly impartial wire service. It was written by a left-liberal organization.
Pity the press in North Carolina: They fail to investigate widespread corruption and they let politicians stall their way out of accountability.
