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Posts Join ProPublica Reporting Effort

The Posts' Reporting For ProPublica

The Posts' Reporting For ProPublica

SANATOGA PA – Some news reporting by Sanatoga-based Career Education Media Ventures (CEMV), focusing on the use of federal economic stimulus funding in Pennsylvania infrastructure projects, is now being shared with a national investigative journalism organization called ProPublica.

CEMV publishes The Sanatoga Post, The Limerick Post and The Pottstown Post.

Joe Zlomek, managing editor of The Posts, last month became the latest among dozens of professional reporters and editors assisting ProPublica. The organization describes itself as “an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest” and is led by Paul Steiger, a former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. ProPublica is funded by a multi-year grant from The Sandler Foundation.

Joe Zlomek is managing editor of The Sanatoga Post.

Joe Zlomek.

The first ProPublica assignment being tackled by The Posts is coverage of the stimulus-funded project known as “PENNSYLVANIA Transportation Z064100: the pavement preservation, bridge deck repair, and bridge parapet repair on U.S. Route 422 from State Route 29 to Township Line in Limerick and Upper Providence (PA) Townships.”

This story announcing The Posts’ reporting involvement, and two others about the 422 project – headlined “New Signs On 422 Mark Stimulus Funding” and “Recovery Act Signs Cause A Stir,” respectively – are being published today (July 20, 2009). An earlier story that announced the launch of the road work, headlined “422 Repairs, Delays Start Tuesday,” was published May 22 (2009), before CEMV’s commitment to ProPublica.

Other stories generated by The Posts will follow. CEMV also has been granted permission under a Creative Commons license to distribute ProPublica articles in The Posts’ editions.

ProPublica opened for business in June 2008. Headquartered in Manhattan, it employs 32 working journalists dedicated to what the group calls “investigative reporting on stories with significant potential for major impact.”

Its articles are available from its website, ProPublica.org, and also are shared with traditional media outlets. To date it has produced team coverage with newspapers The Washington Post, The Pittsburgh PA Post-Gazette, The Albany NY Times-Union, and The Denver CO Post, and others, as well as WNYC Radio and Politico, the online political magazine.

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