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 was hired by the Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia in April of 2009 to help mold a journalism and [...]

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 Adams has made a name for himself by keeping a close eye on the political players of West Virginia.
As editor-in-chief of West [...]

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 has dangerous First Amendment implications.
Hernandez ruled that blogger Crystal Cox was not entitled to the same protection under media shield laws that [...]

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 we are and what we do.
West Virginia Watchdog was created as place where the public can go for West Virginia-focused investigative stories [...]

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 the legacy media and shaping a debate built around facts, not special interests and cronyism.
We covered the succession controversy, wrote in-depth stories on the [...]

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 this week.
As a result, West Virginia Watchdog will go on hiatus for the week, starting today. I’ll be using this [...]

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 alone.According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans do not have confidence that their media source is reporting the news accurately and [...]

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 controversial donors, all while having zero evidence of what they accuse us of.
On Sunday, the Charleston Gazette published an article by reporter Paul [...]

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 websites, West Virginia Watchdog has grown to not only include in-depth and investigative stories, but also reports on our statehouse and agencies, as well as election [...]

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 pockets of natural gas. But much of the Time’s reporting is plagued with inconsistencies.
That’s because NYT reporter Ian Urbina was unethical in how [...]