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Public Data Becomes Valuable to Reporters

Written by Haley Moore | Dec 5, 2019 1:53:10 AM

With the availability of public information on the internet, reporters have a vast advantage when it comes to investigative journalism.

Investigative journalism was traditionally thought to require sources and secrets to uncover crime and corruption, but in the midst of a digital revolution, public data becomes its own storyteller.