Welcome to the investigative reporting blog of award-winning journalist Alex Roslin, author of the book Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence. Roslin was president of the board of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting, and his awards include the Arlene Book Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He doesn’t necessarily endorse material linked below.
Monday, May 31, 2010
The Biz: Right-Wing Think Tanks Discover Non-Profit Investigative Journalism
Is non-profit investigative journalism the panacea it's sometimes said to be? The Nation Institute's Esther Kaplan rightly questions this conclusion in this piece noting the rise of investigative journalism funded by right-wing think tanks. Kaplan reports that one journalist involved for a while in such a project quit after realizing the work involved "hatchet journalism," not reporting in the public interest.
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