{"id":931,"date":"2008-05-07T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2008-05-07T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T17:23:00","slug":"the-future-of-investigative-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/the-future-of-investigative-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of investigative journalism&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he future of investigative journalism? Books, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/5\/pearlstine_newspaper_woes_partially_self_inflicted\">according to<\/a> ex-<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">WSJ <\/span>Managing Editor <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Norman Pearlstine<\/span>.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pearlstine doesn\u2019t believe the newspaper business model will support the kind of long-form, investigative journalism that many of the top reporters and editors have spent their careers pursuing.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>\u2019s recent 17,000-word, four-part series on IED\u2019s in Iraq. Great story, Norm said, but probably better positioned as a book, or a premium download for Amazon\u2019s Kindle. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere might be 50,000 people in the world who want to read that story, but not the ones advertisers want to reach,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of investigative journalism? Books, according to ex-WSJ Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine. Pearlstine doesn\u2019t believe the newspaper business model will support the kind of long-form, investigative journalism that many of the top reporters and editors have spent their careers pursuing. Case in point: the Washington Post\u2019s recent 17,000-word, four-part series on IED\u2019s in Iraq. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[543],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ij"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}