CIM News: Record traffic, ethical questions in NM, HIV discrimination in Michigan Some fantastic news: September saw The Washington Independent breach the one million reader mark for the first time– 1.1 million unique visitors to be exact. In May, TWI logged only 302,000 unique visitors– a 400% increase in four months! What’s driving this phenomenal [...]

Two important lawsuits in the public interest give me a good opportunity to talk about our newsrooms and strategic litigation: As part of two investigative series earlier this year, The Colorado Independent (TCI) sued Colorado State University to get records pertaining to their controversial chancellor search, and won.  TCI also sued the Colorado Independent Ethics [...]

Breaking news: CIM just set a new record on The Washington Independent, breaching 1.1M page views and 800,000 readers for the “slow month” of August while The Iowa Independent and The New Mexico Independent scooped up prestigious awards from the Association of State Capitol Reporters and Editors:   Iowa’s Jason Hancock, Chase Martyn, and Lynda [...]

They say August is a slow month.  Not for us.  Our reporters are far from the beach: Two big scoops by The Washington Independent’s David Weigel, one debunking the birthers, the fringe group that believes President Obama is not a U.S. citizen, and another about prominent conservatives seeking inspiration from famed community organizer Saul Alinsky [...]

The past two weeks have seen remarkable traffic for mid-summer. Interest in the news was driven by our coverage of: False claims that Obama was not born in Hawaii, and the “birther” movement of conspiracy theorists who are further eroding the credibility of conservatives in America. TWI’s reporter, David Weigel, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel [...]