Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life
Is investigative journalism still alive today even with our current technological advances in social media?
Investigative journalism can be described in many ways: “uncovering the hidden”; “expensive”; “difficult”; “requiring dedication”; “has impact”; “holding power to account”
I would argue that it is anything that our audience couldn’t see before – it could be a victim’s story, a buried report, 250,000 cables accessible to 2.5 million people, or even information that is publicly available but has not been connected before.
A journalist that is able to uncover the hidden and provide his target audience with a breaking news story is subject to individual perception.
But this does not mean we need journalists – it means that we need publishers and broadcasters. There is a difference.