Democracy's detectives : the economics of investigative journalism
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Democracy's detectives : the economics of investigative journalism
Harvard University Press, 2016
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Summary: Investigative reporting generates new information about important issues that someone is trying to keep secret. Impacts of this journalism can be high. Yet the costs of discovering and telling these stories may also be significant. Democracy's Detectives uses economic theories of information to explain both how institutions breakdown in predictable ways and how journalists find and reveal which programs, products, and people go astray. The book analyzes the market for investigative reporting by examining more than 12,000 prize competition entries from 1979 to 2010 in the annual awards contest of Investigative Reporters and Editors. The results show what these investigative works in the United States uncovered and their impacts, and how the investigations were conducted and financially supported. Case studies of several investigative series demonstrate that each dollar invested in a story can yield hundreds of dollars in policy benefits. Examining the work of a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter shows ho
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-357) and index
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- Introduction
- Economic theories of investigative reporting
- Detectives, muckrakers, and watchdogs
- What's the story?
- What's the impact?
- How is it produced?
- How is it supported?
- A single investigative reporter
- Accountability and algorithms
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