The Rock Mountain News series is investigatory and scholarly, analytical and insightful, as clear and as compellingly written as any complicated, contentious story can be.

Rocky Mountain News Publishes “The Churchill Files”

Since the inception of controversy over University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, the Rocky Mountain News has led all other media in news coverage, investigation and analysis.  Now, that newspaper has published the results of a detailed, exhaustive two-month investigation into multiple allegations against the embattled professor.

The five-part series of reports, which began on June 4, constitute remarkable journalism of a kind too rarely practiced, regardless of subject matter.  It is thorough; it is careful; it is balanced.  It is investigatory and scholarly, analytical and insightful, as clear and as compellingly written as any complicated, contentious story can be.

Here are the first two paragraphs from the June 4 introductory article, by-lined by Charlie Brennan, Kevin Flynn, Laura Frank, Berny Morson and Kevin Vaughan:

“University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill fabricated historical facts, published the work of others as his own and repeatedly made false claims about two federal Indian laws, a Rocky Mountain News investigation has found.

“The two-month News investigation, carried out at the same time Churchill and his work are being carefully examined by the university, also unearthed fresh genealogical information that casts new doubts on the professor’s long-held assertion that he is of American Indian ancestry.”

For anyone even remotely interested in the Ward Churchill/University of Colorado controversy, the entire series is definitive reading.  For anyone interested in journalism as it can and should be practiced, it is mandatory reading.  This is how it’s done, deserving of the widest possible readership and praise, for the by-lined reporters who wrote it, for the editors who oversaw it, and for the newspaper that committed its resources and talent to it.


June 9, 2005
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