It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's ProPublica!

ProPublica, the non-profit investigative journalism website headed by former WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger has gone live. The site was created in part to “shore up the newspaper industry’s dwindling investigative resources” and Politico is reporting that they have already acquired a staff of 19 and are continuing to hire. According to the site’s “Who We Are” declaration it will,

Strive to foster change through exposing exploitation of the weak by the strong and the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.