You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.
As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.
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What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.
The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.
Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery
I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 911 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.
If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure, have you ever seen a stuck pig? Because that's what the journalist looks like.
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.
I firmly believe in a hybrid future where old media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy), and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out. " I think so often with investigative work, things that initially look like failures wind up leading to your biggest stories.
I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it seemed so ill-suited for my personality, or I thought it was ill-suited for my personality, insofar as I'm not very aggressive, and I'm not confrontational.
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
