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Of course. Investigative journalism has little to do with building an audience of paying subscribers. When the newspaper handled the business end, the journalis
by ceilingcorner 6y ago
Of course. Investigative journalism has little to do with building an audience of paying subscribers. When the newspaper handled the business end, the journalists could focus on the journalism.
It wasn't called "loss leader" for nothing.
- ghaff 6y agoNewspapers were historically a bundle of only somewhat tangentially related things that you had to take, if not actually read, all together. The foreign bureaus and investigative journalism provided the prestige, sports a lot of readership, and classified ads the money. Of course, the Internet broke that bundle apart to a large degree.
- x0x0 6y agoSomeone was doing it on behalf of the journalist. There's no particular difference between the journalist doing it or their publication.