NEW YORK – The Charleston Post and Courier and its 17 community news partners were awarded a Special Citation of the 2022 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for their investigative series, “Uncovered.” The Voice of Blythewood and Fairfield County is one of The Post and Courier’s community news partners. The citation was for the […]
Editorial: ‘News deserts’ and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC
February 18, 2021 By
In a new series on corruption in South Carolina, The Post and Courier states that roughly half of all journalism jobs disappeared during the past 15 years. As community news organizations have folded or are just hanging on, “news deserts” are created where public officials operate without reporters keeping tabs, causing corruption to flourish as […]