Media Models: Investigative Reporters Investigate...For A Price
The Online Journalism Review reports on a not-so-new trend of investigative news outfits performing research for private interests. Why isn’t it new? Because the owners of The Economist have been doing it since 1946 through the Economist Intelligence Unit.
But on this side of the pond, David Westphal at OJR reports, this trend has been slower to catch on.
Now we have GlobalPost, a Boston-based investigative startup that allows readers to request “custom reporting.”
GlobalPost recently had its first paying customer, a client who asked for research about remittances sent back to Mexico by workers in the United States.
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