Romenesko

Center for Justice
Former Spokesman-Review investigative reporter Karen Dorn Steele (left) raises the question. More from the veteran Spokane journalist:
* "I thought I'd be like Morley Safer, that I might work until I was 90 at the Spokesman-Review, but I decided that the quality of the paper would be so degraded that it would probably be a good idea to do something else."
* "What really worries me is regional and local [investigative] reporting because I just don’t see it unless the industry comes up with a great new business model. I just don’t see the support for it there."
* "Unfortunately in the blogosphere there's been a kind of contempt for the so-called MSM, you know, the mainstream media, which I haven't quite figured out because I always thought the two things could be complementary."
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