Realclearinvestigations

RealClearInvestigations is the latest addition to the RealClear family, and an original new voice in investigative journalism. Our mission is three-fold: curate the best investigative reporting found anywhere, produce our own in-depth journalism, and make this original work available to other news organizations. Our work is supported by the RealClearFoundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. That last detail reflects a continuing shift in how news is financed and produced: from profit-based models to donor-supported nonprofit endeavors. The area most affected by this transformation is investigative news - journalism’s most vital work, and typically its most expensive and labor-intensive. Since the Internet’s disruption of media revenue streams, newspapers and other legacy news outfits have cut back drastically on the kind of in-depth, long-form reporting that distinguished them in their glory days. Donors have stepped into this void, using tax-deductible contributions to finance a robust new marketplace of nonprofit news startups, many with an investigative focus. All this ferment creates the need for a trusted arbiter of investigative news, whether reported by newspapers or digital upstarts. Enter RealClear, with 16 years of balanced, widely admired news aggregation under its belt. But RealClearInvestigations is more than just a seasoned observer of the action on the field. Our vantage point leaves us well-placed to identify and fill gaps in investigative coverage, including blind spots in media itself.