So, I'm a software developer that joined an investigative journalism non-profit 6 months ago. There is awesome investigative journalism going on. We even hold

So, I'm a software developer that joined an investigative journalism non-profit 6 months ago. There is awesome investigative journalism going on. We even hold two conferences a year about it, one focused on investigative stuff specifically (http://ire.org/conferences/ire-2012/ http://ire.org/conferences/ire-2012/ ), and one focusing on news technology (http://ire.org/conferences/nicar-2012/ http://ire.org/conferences/nicar-2012/ ). I certainly can't claim that investigative reporting (or any reporting really) is doing as well as it has in the past, given the massive attrition in the news industry, but there are a lot of reporters out there who are fighting the good fight. We even put out a newsletter of investigative stories: http://ire.org/blog/extra-extra/ http://ire.org/blog/extra-extra/ Edit: don't forget ProPublica's awesome #muckreads blog (http://projects.propublica.org/muckreads/ http://projects.propublica.org/muckreads/ ).