Democracy’s Detectives

Hamilton. (2016). Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism. Harvard University Press.

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Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2016

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Domain-specific

• Original Reporting
  • Accountability and investigative journalism — the home turf: the sustained gathering of documents, interviews, and observed proceedings that produces evidence not previously in accessible form, the differentiator from aggregation-only commentary. Editorial and verification practice — the desk's sourcing standards and the attribution conventions ("documents obtained by this outlet," "in an interview with X," on-record versus on-background) that flag, claim by claim, which assertions are primary and therefore interrogatable. Fact-checking and media-literacy work — provenance-tracing a viral or contested claim back down its chain to ask whether anyone, anywhere, gathered primary evidence, or whether the stack is derivative all the way down. Media-economics and press-policy analysis — the local-news-desert literature, where the loss of courts-and-council reporters is read precisely as a base-layer collapse that no volume of aggregation can backfill, and the free-rider under-supply of costly primary gathering motivates subsidy and protection.
• Watchdog Journalism
  • The business-model lever adds a resource prediction — because expensive long-form investigation depends on the economic structure of the press, degrading the funding base is predicted to suppress watchdog output even with every legal protection intact

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