California Watch is the largest investigating team in the state, says Mark Katches who helped launch the team of seven reporters, two multimedia producers and two editors to help fill a “big void in doing investigative work in California.”
The site set its sites on “exposing injustice, waste, mismanagement, wrongdoing, questionable practices and corruption, so that those responsible can be held to account and the public is armed with the information it needs to debate solutions and spark change.” Besides political topics, the site will cover higher education, health and welfare, and criminal justice.
The team includes heavy hitters such as Louis Freedberg, from the San Francisco Chronicle, Robert Salladay, a L.A. Times vet, Lance Williams, one of a duo who broke the Barry Bonds-BALCO steroid doping scandal, Susan Mernit, a veteran of AOL, Netscape and Yahoo, Mark Luckie, of 10,000 Words, and Philadelphia Inquirer veteran Robert Rosenthal.
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