The Demise of Investigative Journalism

Huffington Post by Russell Wild, Margaret Engel | Mar. 13, 2009 (Opinion)

The 20,000 journalism jobs lost in the past 18 months are flushing knowledge and experience out of American newsrooms, diminishing our lives and our democracy. The brain drain is exacting penalties that society may live to regret.

As professionals depart paid journalism, secrecy and corruption will flourish. Fear of public exposure is one of the few brakes on such behavior. The American Society of Journalists and Authors represents independent ... Full Story »

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 by Kristin Gorski - Mar. 14, 2009

Investigative journalism is important. It saves lives and protects the public from corruption. How did we learn that the wood in playground equipment was treated with serious cancer-causing preservatives? Or that our government paid for poor patients to be injected with plutonium for horrifying medical research that killed and maimed them? We know these facts because reporters told us. Improvements in society don’t come without a push. It’s often news reporting that’s behind legislatures, regulators, and trade groups finally acting to clean up abuses.

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