<![CDATA[Leonard Downie Jr. - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/rss/archive/17217.xmlAuthor <![CDATA[How Obama Hurts the Press]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 For the past five years, beginning with his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama has promised that his government would be the most open and transparent in American history. Recently, while stating that he makes “no apologies” for his Justice Department’s investigations into suspected leaks of classified information, the president added that “a free press, free expression and the open flow of information helps hold me accountable, helps hold our government accountable and helps our democracy function.” Then, in his National Defense University speech Thursday, Obama said he was “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the...]]> <![CDATA[Investigative Journalism at Risk]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Investigative reporting in America did not begin with Watergate. But it became entrenched in American journalism — and has been steadily spreading around the world — largely because of Watergate.

Now, 40 years after Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote their first stories about the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate office building, the future of investigative reporting is at risk in the chaotic digital reconstruction of journalism in the United States.

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