Paul Steiger gave an insight into the first two years of ProPublica at a talk in Toronto on Monday. The CEO of the investigative journalism non-profit said they were “a year ahead” of where they had expected to be. The initial challenges were brand recognition, getting partners and concerns about bias due to its left-leaning funders. Steiger admitted that the timing of ProPublica’s launch in 2008 had helped in setting

The 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism starts on Friday 17 April at UT Austin  and I’m planning to blog and Twitter from the two days of discussions on the state of online journalism. The conference is unusual as it brings together journalists, news executives and academics from across the world. The event kicks off with a keynote by Paul Steiger, the former editor of The Wall Street Journal, who