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New investigative center collaborates with media, J-schools
After spending 31 years in the newspaper industry, reporter Jim Heaney decided to start out again on his own. The result was Investigative Post, a new investigative center that collaborates with major media outlets and university journalism programs to produce and distribute investigations and analyses on major issues in Buffalo and western New York. The nonprofit organization officially launched in February and can be found at investigativepost.org.
Heaney's background includes six years with the Orlando Sentinel as a reporter and editor, and 25 years with The Buffalo News as an investigative reporter. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1993.
After taking a buyout last August, Heaney said he still had an itch to do investigative...