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There's no money in investigative journalism. Good stories take months (sometimes years), so you need hundreds of good journalists to make good stories in a hi
by input_sh 4y ago
There's no money in investigative journalism.
Good stories take months (sometimes years), so you need hundreds of good journalists to make good stories in a high enough frequency that people would even consider paying for a subscription.
You're either chasing public grants (and people always question your impartiality), or you die. You can count on one hand the ones that have been in this game for longer than a decade and even then you'll have fingers to spare.
Today we lost a great one.
Disclaimer: I work for OCCRP.org which I would (subjectively) put in the same basket. No Pulitzer yet, but we got a Nobel Peace Prize nomination this year!
- p3rls 4y agoLet's not kid ourselves, for every decent journalist in these organizations there's five useless ones who are primarily employed to remind us non-physicists of Murray Gell-Man
- kritiko 4y agoTo the extent that publications like The Atlantic have declined, I think it's because clickbait works, or at least it seems to if you're dependent on the online ads business model, so legacy publications have chosen to become more like Buzzfeed.
- AlbertCory 4y agoAnyone can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize.
- andrepd 4y ago>There's no money in investigative journalism. Maybe not everything in life ought to be ruled by The Market.
- CutieConstable 4y ago[dead]