Geoff Dougherty

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Geoffrey Dougherty
NationalityAmerican
EducationMPH, PhD candidate
Alma mater Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
OccupationJournalist
Known forFounding the Chi-Town Daily News and Chicago Current, computer-assisted/quantitative journalism, journalist for U.S. News & World Report

Geoff Dougherty is a Chicago journalist noted for founding two local news organizations, and for his work as a computer-assisted/quantitative journalist.

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Career

Chi-Town Daily News

In 2005, Dougherty founded the nonprofit Chicago Daily News, an online-only news organization devoted to hyperlocal coverage of Chicago neighborhoods. The name echoed that of the Chicago Daily News , a newspaper which had folded in 1978 and had been held in high regard by him. [1] He even used Craigslist to advertise for writers. [1] The organization shortly changed its name to Chi-Town Daily News. In 2007, it received $340,000 in funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to build a network of trained citizen journalists to cover their Chicago neighborhoods. [2]

The news organization won national attention for its business model and journalism, including coverage in The Washington Post . [3] and Boston Globe . [4] Chi-Town Daily News attracted some criticism from traditional journalists, who argued that citizen journalism would encourage news organizations to lay off full-time, professional reporters in favor of unpaid volunteers incapable of producing high-caliber journalism. [5] Chi-Town Daily News closed in September 2009, citing a lack of available philanthropic funds to continue operations. [6]

Chicago Current

In 2010, Dougherty and a group of former Chi-Town Daily News reporters launched Chicago Current, an insider political paper modeled after Politico . [7]

Computer-Assisted Reporting

Before launching the two online newspapers, Dougherty was the computer-assisted reporting editor at the Chicago Tribune , where he undertook investigations on coal mining [8] and food safety. [9]

Earlier, he served as computer-assisted reporting editor at the Miami Herald , where he played a key role in the paper's investigation into the flawed presidential election of 2000, and the subsequent effort to examine and analyze all of the discarded ballots in Florida. [10]

U.S. News & World Report

Dougherty is now a journalist for U.S. News & World Report , performing quantitative analysis on health care-related topics. In 2015, he and Steve Sternberg reported on increased procedural complication rates for surgeries at low-volume hospitals. [11] This led Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and the University of Michigan Health System to impose policies of minimum volume for certain procedures. [12]

Education

Dougherty received his MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where is currently a PhD candidate. He has received a student award from The Mary B. Meyer Memorial Fund. [13]

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  9. ↑ Jackson, David (10 Dec 2001). "Schools Flunk Food Safety". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
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  11. ↑ Sternberg S and Dougherty G. "Risks are high at low-volume hospitals." The US News and World Report. Published 2015-05-18. Accessed 2015-07-06.
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  13. ↑ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Honors and Awards. Accessed 2015-07-06.
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