AllThingsD » investigative journalism http://allthingsd.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:05:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 But That "People Familiar With the Matter" Stuff Ain't Gonna Fly Here http://allthingsd.com/20090501/but-that-%e2%80%9cpeople-familiar-with-the-matter%e2%80%9d-stuff-ain%e2%80%99t-gonna-fly-here/ http://allthingsd.com/20090501/but-that-%e2%80%9cpeople-familiar-with-the-matter%e2%80%9d-stuff-ain%e2%80%99t-gonna-fly-here/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 11:55:55 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=16744 jjj_godzillaBusiness journalists who had their careers curtailed by the souring economy might consider stopping by the Securities and Exchange Commission on their next trip to the unemployment office. The agency may have a good use for their talents, according to Chairman Mary Schapiro, who finds the sadly diminished ranks of the business press worrisome. “I think financial journalists have in many cases been the sources of some really important enforcement cases and really important discovery of practices and products that regulators should be profoundly concerned about,” she said in remarks to the Reuters Global Financial Regulation Summit this week. “Investigative journalism actually would be a pretty interesting skill set for us to have. We’ve talked about financial analysis, we’ve talked about forensic accounting being skill sets that we really need–understanding of complex trading, strategies and systems, but it’s one of the things the SEC has to do. It has to really broaden its horizons and bring in people who think about things a little differently than it has historically.”

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Two thoughts on the Huffington Post’s newly announced $1.75 million “Huffington Post Investigative Fund”:

  • It took a while, but Arianna Huffington has finally agreed to start paying her writers. Not the army of bloggers who contribute to the site, mind you. But the fund’s money is earmarked for “10 staff journalists who will primarily coordinate stories with freelancers,” she tells the AP. I predict that they’ll also have to hire an admin to deal with the deluge of pitches and resumes.
  • The fund won’t solve the gaping hole opening up in American journalism: The disappearing beat writers who used to cover important but unsexy topics day in and day out, like health care, education or municipal government. But it does provide a nice parallel for the role of “investigative journalism” at most newspapers over the past couple decades: specialized, high-profile projects that didn’t have a commercial payoff and were underwritten by the papers’ other sections.

And one other thought: It’s easy enough to be cynical about this venture, but a lot of it sounds appealing, at least in theory. I’m particularly interested in the notion that the fund’s output “will be free for any media outlet to publish simultaneously.” Look forward to seeing the results.

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