[ThomPete]

Sustainable investigative journalism is most likely going to solve itself by technologies and access to information and so it makes little sense to want to focus on that as a business category IMO. Making it sustainable is a byproduct of the technologies, tools and legislative work we develop.

In fact one of the best tools is already here we are using it right now. It's never been as cheap to do as it is right now.

A good example:

https://medium.com/@danmunro/why-i-believe-my-theranos-blood...

People in general don't pay for investigative journalism and so it's never going to be a business category in itself and never have been.

The closest thing we have is something like WikiLeaks or what Snowden did.

[discodave]

Your answer isn't even consistent with itself.

> Sustainable investigative journalism is most likely going to solve itself

This sounds like your saying the business model for investigative journalism is obvious and easy.

> People in general don't pay for investigative journalism and so it's never going to be a business category in itself

This shows that you actually don't think it's solvable / there is no business model. If it's being done as charity or thankless hard work then I don't think that's solved.

[ThomPete]

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough so for that, I apologies.

So what I am basically saying is that investigative journalism IS already sustainable it's just not a business.

It's if anything a process or a number of very loosely defined processes if even that.

The process is going to cost whatever it cost to investigate whatever it is you want to investigate and the only way to make it "sustainable" (cheaper) is through the development of other areas which has nothing to do with that process.

The link I reference shows a pretty simple, cheap and powerful form of investigative journalism (he more or proved Theranos was not working).

If you want to break into the US military and steal their secrets it's going to take your whisteblowers to get the information.

So trying to put it into a business context is misleading as it's just really a broad area of snooping around hoping to find some dirt.