Tag: Investigative journalism
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Nonprofit groups form a Watchdog Reporting Network
Nonprofit groups form a Watchdog Reporting Network Charles Lewis tells of the Pocantico Declaration and the birth of an Investigative News Network. This is so perfect for my current work. I was just spelling out how good investigative journalism is so expensive, we can never charge enough for it, nor pay for it. I think…
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Deep Throat Meets Data Mining: Algorithms and Humans Adding Value
On a disaggregated Web, it seems, people and advertisers simply will not pay anything like the whole freight for investigative reporting. But Hamilton thinks advances in computing can alter the economic equation, supplementing and, in some cases, even substituting for the slow, expensive and eccentric humans required to produce in-depth journalism as we’ve known it.…