Rawstory wants to do its own investigative journalism

[Poiuyt]

As part of Raw Story’s reorganization, we will be creating a fully separate investigative news team to dig even deeper into those stories that require closer attention and longer focus.

Our overworked managing news editor, Larisa Alexandrovna, has also been our only investigative reporter and almost entirely her own team following very closely stories that are important to all of us.

Larisa will now focus on heading up a full investigative team that will operate with some autonomy from the day-to-day news management of the site. The investigative team will be able to branch out and cover more stories than ever before, and expand our access to the information that’s important to you.

An investigative news team is desperately needed in every news organization. While quick and up-to-the-minute news coverage is important, and we ourselves work tirelessly to provide it, other stories require much more focus and digging. Sadly, most news outlets today are reducing—or altogether eliminating--their investigative work and focusing almost exclusively on the 24/7 news cycle. It’s easy to see why; Investigative reporting is incredibly expensive, with very little financial reward.

But we want to do better. To put it bluntly, we find the decline in American investigative reporting to be a serious and disturbing failure of the media. And we’re here to be part of the solution, not the problem.

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http://www.rawstory.com/donations.html

[madrchsod]

1. i didn`t realize that larisa was the only reporter

we need more people like her and maybe they can attract funding to investigate on important issues

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Best wishes to Lala

May there be a Pulitzer Prize in her future.

[chaska]

3. Fuck yeah!

Kick that thang!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. I want to be an astronaut!

[Richard Steele]

18. Only two syllables to go, my little buckaroo!

:crazy:

[Imagevision]

5. Someone should...No?!!

[mmonk]

6. This is great.

A kick for Larissa.:kick:

[democrank]

7. Good news.

So much to investigate, so little time.

[shadowknows69]

8. Taking any resumes Raw Story?

I'm willing to relocate or just be the Northern New York correspondent.

[90-percent]

9. Larissa

I'll go be her Boy Friday, if I can negotiate some kind of arrangement with my wife. And if I was that good a negotiator, I would have gone over to Iraq four years ago and single handedly straightened this mess out!

-85% Jimmy

[lala_rawraw]

17. yes, taking resumes and boy friday's always welcome

[katinmn]

11. Good luck even getting a form letter back

[shadowknows69]

21. I submit my DU journal for writing samples

and I'll be shooting you off a resume later Raw Story.

[Minnesota_Lib]

10. Great news!

[davekriss]

13. After viewing the pix of the lovely Siebel in post 6...

...you had to go ruin it with that shot of Laura B? Ugh!
;)

[Clark2008]

12. So - are they hiring?

I actually have an investigative reporting background.

And, maybe now's the time to go back...

[lala_rawraw]

14. yes

[blogslut]

15. kicked

and recommended.

And the Raw haters can bite my butt.

[cascadiance]

16. With the Knight Ridder to McClatchey transition, perhaps some folks there...

... would be interested in working for Raw Story too, though it sounds like McClatchey is trying to keep their bureau doing the same good things they were doing earlier...

http://public.cq.com/public/20060807_media.html

[Eric J in MN]

19. I'm glad to see this.

We need more investigative journalism.

There are other projects for that which don't seem to have gotten off the ground so far (Sheldon Drobny's Fourth Estate Society, for example) but Raw Story already has the foundations.

[mmonk]

20. I wish I could write.

At 50, starting over and getting a degree in journalism seems like it would be daunting, but I'm not really using my B.S. in Liberal Studies degree (poli sci and economics). But with all this crap going on, it's hard just to concentrate on real estate (my profession).

[DemReadingDU]

22. K&R

[FernBell]

23. k&r

[Poiuyt]

24. kick for Lala

[chaska]

25. kick.

[stop the bleeding]

26. Kicking

for Larissa