“The new muckraking isn’t the effect of new media alone…Yet buried within the infrastructures of communicative abundance are technical features that enable muckrakers to do their work of publicly scrutinising power, much more efficiently and effectively than at any moment in the history of democracy.”
Nick Denton says Gizmodo's new design focus is aimed at taking advantage of Gawker's discussion platform, Kinja. nie.mn/18QzLAz 
Articles tagged investigative reporting (41)
November 29, 2012
November 1, 2012
If you want to charge readers for journalism, you have to prove its value — and that means getting beyond he-said-she-said and the view from nowhere.
May 30, 2012
In the start of a regular column for Nieman Lab, Jonathan Stray argues that a too-narrow definition of the work of journalism limits the field’s potential.
The Center for Investigative Reporting project aims to grow audiences and revenue by assembling the work of many different news organizations, large and small.
March 29, 2012
On cutting back on breaking news coverage at The Bay Citizen: “There’s almost no such thing as first anymore.”
March 5, 2012
A new initiative at Duke University is building — and reviewing — software tools to take the drudgery out of investigative and public-affairs journalism.
December 30, 2011
The MoJo co-editor on why “there’s no better time to be an investigative journalist”
August 25, 2011
The investigative outfit explores “aggregation in the public interest.”
August 10, 2011
Even when you get the Colbert Bump, you’ve got to be ready to take advantage of it.
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