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Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Business Model for Investigative Journalism Is Broken

I was just talking to an old friend who I had worked at Fortune with in the 1990s and we were saying wow those were the golden years and we just didn't get it at the time. A fairly well-paying staff job at a magazine where you could take months to work on a piece that might not come true fruition doesn't exist broadly any more. If the business model for journalism is is somewhat broken it's also the individual incentives right because if the business model is is is broken then it's very hard as a freelance journalist. So yes I'd say my job is my job is everything I would ask it I could imagine it to be and I'm very very lucky and I

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