Investigative Journalism and the New Transparency

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The collapse of the traditional business model underlying many legacy news organizations and the rise of new digital publishing models have had wide-ranging effects, most of them still very much playing out.But a number of trends and lessons are now widely agreed.  Among these:Much of investigative journalism in the U.S. and perhaps elsewhere has become a public good—that is, investigative journalism has been the subject of a market failure almost certain to persist.  Much of it will need to be funded through non-market mechanisms, including both mass (direct email) and elite (“major gifts” and institutional) philanthropy. On the brighter side, however, the very digital technologies giving rise to this disruption also enable new forms and formats of publishing investigative journalism that are …


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