Looking forward to the future of journalism

Express-News reader uncovers electrical usage of a digital billboard

Gotta love this letter to the editor by engineer Wendell Peters published today in the San Antonio Express-News: After an explosion at one of our power plants, CPS Energy urged us to conserve power. I was curious to see how much power is used by the digital billboards gracing our highways. The CPS meter is … Read more

Today’s watchdog blog roundup

What others are saying about watchdog journalism: Related: How to contact a news reporter in Texas Outside Looking Back: Interesting interview with Karen Dorn Steele, a longtime investigative reporter from my hometown of Spokane, Wash. Karen took a buyout from the Spokesman-Review. She looks back at conflicts she had with the family that owned the … Read more