Jan 8
2014
Jan 8
2014
Jan 7
2014
Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who was the subject of a controversial 60 Minutes program that aired Sunday, is a chief investor in one of the two cleantech companies moving here under the Buffalo Billion program. Soraa, which makes LED lighting, lists Khosla Ventures as one of its three top investors. Khosla Ventures general partner Samir Kaul is a member of Soraa’s board of directors. Manny Hernandez, a former operating partner with Khosla, is also on Soraa’s board. The 60 Minutes program “The Cleantech Crash” has come under scrutiny from environmentalists and cleantech supporters on claims that it misrepresented the health of the industry. Khosla, who Forbes called the “Man With the Golden Touch,” has invested more[...]
Jan 7
2014
Investigative Post is seeking a development director to help us grow our organization into the preeminent source of watchdog journalism in Buffalo and Western New York. Investigative Post has attracted significant donor support during its two years of operation thanks in part to the quality of its journalism and the high profile it has established through a distribution network of newspapers, websites and television and radio stations that has reached a cumulative audience of 10 million viewers, readers and listeners. Investigative Post has also developed a strategic finance plan and built a fundraising infrastructure, including a database of more than[...]
Jan 7
2014
Readers voted Dan Telvock’s story on potentially contaminated water at a proposed state beach as Investigative Post’s story of the year. The story, which aired Oct. 3 on WGRZ and published in Artvoice and on InvestigativePost.org, garnered 37 percent of votes in an online poll. Telvock reported that the beach, off Route 5 in South Buffalo, is adjacent to two Superfund sites and that an Erie County Health Department consultant had concluded that opening the beach for swimming was “probably impractical from a public health standpoint.” State officials responded to the report by first refusing to commit to testing the water[...]
Jan 5
2014
Jan 1
2014
Dec 30
2013
Dec 30
2013
This is the time of year when news organizations look back at the biggest stories of the past 12 months, and while I hate to follow any pack, such a review is in order for our fledgling organization. Dan Telvock and I produced some 55 stories, 75 blog posts and a dozen in-depth interviews in 2013. That body of work was read, viewed and listened to by a collective audience that approached 6 million through our website and news outlets that distributed our stories, primarily WGRZ TV, and also Artvoice, WBFO FM and The Buffalo News. I’m especially pleased with[...]