Getting the Real Story
Investigative journalism is tough, expensive and essential January–February 2009
The history of journalism and the printed word has been the history of periodic technological upheaval, The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century made wide distribution of the written word possible and was the beginning of the end of the dominantly oral culture of Europe. Later, the invention of the Linotype machine in the late 19th century heralded the beginning of…