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Depends on who they lay off, but it does mean they'll have less resources to do investigative journalism. Hidden Brain had a good podcast episode on the costs
by analogmemory 8y ago
Depends on who they lay off, but it does mean they'll have less resources to do investigative journalism.
Hidden Brain had a good podcast episode on the costs of newspapers going out of business.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/675092808/starving-the-watchdog-who-foots-the-bill-when-newspapers-disappear https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/675092808/starving-the-watchd...
Unless you're a shady person, then it's all good news :(
- adamnemecek 8y agoNone of these outlets do investigative journalism.
- dublinben 8y agoIt took less than a minute to find this: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/ https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/
- jdietrich 8y agoBuzzfeed have one of the best investigative bureaus in the world. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
- yasp 8y agoAccording to whom and on what basis? Their standards for publication seem to be low, AFAICT [1] [2]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/business/buzzfeed-donald-trump-russia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/business/buzzfeed-donald-... [2] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/01/20/the-liberal-media-eats-it-again-n2539302 https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/01/20/the-liber...
- fitzroy 8y agoThat isn't true. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/investigative-journalism https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/investigative-journalism https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/ https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/
- growlix 8y agoBuzzfeed has an investigative journalism arm[0] that its built over the last ~7 years. They were a 2018 Pulitzer finalist[1]. I assume their clickbait subsidizes their investigative journalism, a business model that gives me hope given the importance of investigative journalism. Unfortunately that hope is tempered by the recent round of layoffs. [0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations [1] https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoHow many times to they appear on this list? I mean... an article about journalistic dishonesty is titled Beyond Buzzfeed! [0] [0] https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-worst-most-embarrassing-u-s-media-failures-on-the-trumprussia-story/ https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...
- makomk 8y agoOddly enough, the major reason I don't trust their investigative reporting was one of the articles that made them a 2018 Pulitzer finalist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947852 It was pretty much a conspiracy theory about Russian mind control chemicals disguised as a long-form article about the British police ignoring the supposed assassination of a scientist by the Russians.
- BeetleB 8y agoIt's been about 5 years since I last read McClatchy, but assuming they haven't changed much, your statement is ridiculous. They were one of the few major newspapers in the US to still do investigations. It was the only US based newspaper I would read because it was the only major paper out there to provide different perspectives on many events at the time (e.g. Guantanamo Bay). They weren't opinion pieces, but actual journalists going out and publishing things no one else was looking into.
- pulisse 8y agoAt the moment I write this, the #1 item on the HN front page is a BuzzFeed News investigative piece[1], "One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057643