> I hope you'll consider this, because our society cannot function without quality investigative reporting.
Where do I find quality investigative reporting?
I support the Guardian and two regional/local newspapers and I' also forced to pay for the state run broadcaster here but I have to say that I also find myself reading a number of other sources to figure out what is really going on (for the Scandinavians here I'm one of those who will happily look to both Klassekampen and Document, in addition to vg.no and nrk to figure out what is really going on in certain cases, and I understand I am not alone in this).
Once you know a bit of history and a number of different angles you realize some things are horribly complicated and big media is making things worse by pushing misinformation, and by conveniently omitting facts. My favourite example from my favourite (i.e. least despised) local mainstream media source: X fired at a number of positions in neighbouring country Y yesterday. <Long article about this>. <Towards the end:> This happened after a barrage of rockets was fired from these positions shortly before. And that is the most honest of them. The rest seemed to just omit the fact that part Y fired first.
PS: The reason I support some of them is 1) because I feel it is the right thing to do. 2) because I feel at least one of them have actually managed to do some great quality investigative reporting as well as some great feature stories in between. We talk about certain companies and public healthcare organizations getting some much needed sunlight.
Abrams Foundation, Altman Foundation, Arnold Ventures, Barr
Foundation, The William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, The Peter and Carmen
Lucia Buck Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Craigslist
Foundation, Davis Wright Tremaine, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation,
Democracy Fund, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Dyson Foundation,
Emerson Collective, The Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation,
Goldhirsh Foundation, The Jerome L. Greene Foundation, Heising-Simons
Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Joyce
Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation, Leon Levy Foundation, The John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, Metabolic Studio, Park Foundation, The Lisa
and John Pritzker Family Fund, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Sandler
Foundation, Select Equity Foundation, Skoll Global Threats Fund,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Solidarity Giving
I've come to really enjoy long-form podcast investigative reporting, as there's enough content that it's pretty obvious whether proper journalistic work has been done or not.
My favorite in that vein is 'In The Dark' by APM Reports, which was a massive eye-opener for me in terms of flaws in the justice system (especially Season 2).
Where do I find quality investigative reporting?
I support the Guardian and two regional/local newspapers and I' also forced to pay for the state run broadcaster here but I have to say that I also find myself reading a number of other sources to figure out what is really going on (for the Scandinavians here I'm one of those who will happily look to both Klassekampen and Document, in addition to vg.no and nrk to figure out what is really going on in certain cases, and I understand I am not alone in this).
Once you know a bit of history and a number of different angles you realize some things are horribly complicated and big media is making things worse by pushing misinformation, and by conveniently omitting facts. My favourite example from my favourite (i.e. least despised) local mainstream media source: X fired at a number of positions in neighbouring country Y yesterday. <Long article about this>. <Towards the end:> This happened after a barrage of rockets was fired from these positions shortly before. And that is the most honest of them. The rest seemed to just omit the fact that part Y fired first.
PS: The reason I support some of them is 1) because I feel it is the right thing to do. 2) because I feel at least one of them have actually managed to do some great quality investigative reporting as well as some great feature stories in between. We talk about certain companies and public healthcare organizations getting some much needed sunlight.