As news organizations wrestle with the challenge of discovering profitable reporting models for a digital age, at least three types of public service journalism are endangered species: investigative
reporting, in-depth statehouse and city government coverage and foreign coverage. Expensive to produce, they have been subsidized by more profitable facets of news operations.
While
online news producers like ProPublica and Voice of San Diego offer promising new models to sustain investigative and local government reporting, less experimentation-though some-is being directed at
sustaining high-quality international coverage on digital platforms. If greater attention is not paid to this circumstance, we may soon reach a time when the foreign correspondent is a relic from a
past age of journalism.
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