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“There’s a fiction perpetuated by narcissists like me that investigative reporting is the province of a few heroic lone wolves who use their superpowers to single-handedly expose and topple evildoers. Nonsense.” Stuart Watson
“The new muckraking isn’t the effect of new media alone…Yet buried within the infrastructures of communicative abundance are technical features that enable muckrakers to do their work of publicly scrutinising power, much more efficiently and effectively than at any moment in the history of democracy.” John Keane
Keane, John. "John Keane: The new muckrakers are challenging democratic institutions — in a good way." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 29 Nov. 2012. Web. 12 Dec. 2024.
APA
Keane, J. (2012, Nov. 29). John Keane: The new muckrakers are challenging democratic institutions — in a good way. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 12, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/john-keane-the-new-muckrakers-are-challenging-democratic-institutions-in-a-good-way/
Chicago
Keane, John. "John Keane: The new muckrakers are challenging democratic institutions — in a good way." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 29, 2012. Accessed December 12, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/john-keane-the-new-muckrakers-are-challenging-democratic-institutions-in-a-good-way/.
Wikipedia
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