WatchBlog: Dishonest journalism hurting Marcellus development
By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON –Over the past few months the New York Times has ran several stories on Marcellus Shale, stretching from New York to Tennessee, which holds...
View ArticleWatchBlog: West Virginia Watchdog celebrates second anniversary
By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON — On Sept. 14, 2009, West Virginia Watchdog had its official debut. Part of the Watchdog.org network of 40 state-based investigative news...
View ArticleWatchBlog: Charleston Gazette gets facts wrong
By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON — In what has now become a yearly tradition, the Charleston Gazette decided link West Virginia Watchdog and the foundation that funds us to...
View ArticleWatchBlog: Odds are you don’t trust journalists
By Jason Stverak | For the Washington Examiner WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you not trust your local news reporters? Believe that network anchormen are politically motivated? If you do, you are not...
View ArticleWatchBlog: We wish you a merry Christmas
By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON — As we go into the week before Christmas, I’m sure things will get slow in the political news world. As a result, article will be sporadic...
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Dear Friend of West Virginia Watchdog, Thank you for being a loyal reader of West Virginia Watchdog. Our investigative and statehouse news coverage is breaking the information monopoly so long held by...
View ArticleWelcome to West Virginia Watchdog
By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON — Hello and welcome to West Virginia Watchdog 2012. We’d like to welcome back our regular readers, but also welcome new readers and explain who...
View ArticleWatchBlog: First Amendment protects bloggers, too
By Jason Stverak | For the Washington Examiner WASHINGTON, D.C. — This past December, federal judge Marco Hernandez of Oregon issued a ruling in the libel trial of Obsidian Finance Group v. Cox that...
View ArticleWatchBlog: WV Watchdog editor chosen as one of The State Journal’s Generation...
CHARLESTON — Steven Allen Adams, the managing editor for West Virginia Watchdog for the last 2 1/2 years was recently chosen as one of The State Journal’s Generation Next: Forty Under 40. Steven Allen...
View ArticleWatchBlog: One editor says goodbye and introduces the new editor
CHARLESTON — Change is always a necessary thing, though it’s rarely something that comes easy. In this case, I have the sad duty of saying goodbye and and the proud duty to introduce my successor. I...
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