[ChuckMcM]

I wish I could upvote this more. This is such a pain for me, to see a reported story and see an obvious question that any serious journalist could answer just sitting there, unanswered. It made me wonder what they teach in Journalism school these days.

As it turns out, not much about investigation. I looked through the curriculum at Berkeley[1] (a respected journalism school) and found things like J260[2] which is a seminar more on "why" of investigative reporting than the "how". There is also a "web skills"[3] class, but this is just about building a web site.

They really should consider adding a 'using the Internet to find people, corroborate sources, discover links between individuals and corporations, and to track ownership relationships.' Something that, as the author points out, is really a bunch of useful web sites and how to click them.

[1] https://journalism.berkeley.edu/curriculum/

[2] https://investigativereportingprogram.com/

[3] https://journalism.berkeley.edu/course-section/j215intro-to-...

[hos234]

These days newsrooms do have a bunch of technical people on staff (plus access to an amazing network of experts outside), to do the kind of digging the article talks about. Resource, time constraints, pressure to publish before someone else scoops you I think complicate the process.

It's similar to software companies pushing out workarounds and hacks to deal with bugs that there is no time/resource available to fully investigate.