Citing examples such as Talking Points Memo and Voice of San Diego, Mike Masnick argues that investigative journalism is being done better, faster and cheaper online than it ever was in newspapers.
“Newspapers never spent that much on investigative reporting, and they rarely did a particularly good job of it, other than an occasional big story in an attempt to win a Pulitzer. People can pine about that mythical genie and bottle, or they can start focusing on all the opportunity out there that will be coming out of some of these (or other) experiments,” he writes.