he also received the george polk award and was a finalist for the gerald loeb award, along with michael is the washington magazine called him one of washington's 50 best reporters. he is a true d.c. native graduated from gonzaga high school and also northwestern university. so, brody, as a paper focus on business and business people for many advocates "the wall street journal" is somewhat of a mystery. yet much of the investigative reporting done by you and your colleagues has resulted in very consumer-oriented reforms. sort of like the "rachel maddow show" resulting in more government, less government regulation so it's kind of an oxymoron, but in terms of investigative reporting how important is it to the fundamental mission of the journal? brody: how important is investigative -- jack: to the journal. brody: i think to "the wall street journal" investigative journalism is incredibly important in part because the problem we've had with investigative reporting overall, a decline in the media and regional newspapers which is greater a vacuum or opening for people doing big broad stories

showing how aol misuse accounting the few its disastrous merger with time warner which one the gerald loeb award. he taught journalism at wesleyan university and graduated in new hampshire. to larry, first of all propublica seems to be the hottest discussion item among research and polling communities. so what in the world is propublica? how are you funded? who is your audience? what is your overarching asian? -- what is your overarching goal? larry: thanks, jack. appreciated being here with the consumer federation and with this cluster's panel of reporters. as a lowly editor i'm somewhat , of an odd man out, but propublica is a nonprofit independent newsroom that started about six years ago. and that was in the midst of the real upheaval in the way the internet was changing the news business. there was real fear among many of us at the time that the traditional news organizations because of the change in a business model were not going to be able to devote the amount of resources and time to investigative reporting in the sense of long-term in depth work that takes reporters months to pro