Editor-in-Chief Dave Levinthal this week detailed Raw Story’s plans for the newsroom’s investigative reporting — and dug into a pair of new investigations already published.
“In 2023, we want to expand and we want to increasingly do incisive, enterprising, original investigative journalism,” Levinthal told host Bill Scanlan on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”.
Such reporting “will not just be telling you about things that are in the news environment right now, but also, uncovering lots of news that you do not know and are not going to be finding in any other publication.”
Levinthal, a Washington, D.C.-based investigative editor and reporter, joined Raw Story in January along with Executive Editor Adam Nichols, previously the managing editor of Patch.
Also joining the staff in recent days are Night Editor Mary Papenfuss and writer Gideon Rubin.
In recent weeks, Raw Story has broken stories that have made national news. They include:
- The Senate Ethics Committee’s lax enforcement of members’ alleged transgressions
- Cyberthieves stealing huge sums of money from federal lawmakers’ campaign accounts
- A little-known COVID caveat at the Conservative Political Action Conference
- Money Al Sharpton’s old presidential campaign owes the federal government
- Sen. Bernie Sanders’ relationship with Ticketmaster
- Rep. George Santos’ views on making the AR-15 rifle the United States’ national gun
- Revelations that Kanye West funded white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ Trump-related travels
- How Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Senate friends are bankrolling his legal defense
- How a January 6 architect is avoiding jail time
- Why two Democratic members of Congress just violated the STOCK Act with stock trades
- The Republican Party of Minnesota getting fined for breaking campaign laws
Watch the C-SPAN interview below.
