David Carr: Muckraking Pays, Just Not in Profit
By AAN Staff
december 10, 2007 12:28 pm
The
Times columnist says that given all of the newspaper industry's woes,
last week's Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper newsroom layoffs might not seem significant. But Carr, who was editor of the
City Paper in the 1990s, thinks the cuts illustrate the larger issue of an industry-wide abandonment of investigative journalism. Creative Loafing CEO Ben Eason says that's not the case. "We are not trying to make any other statement here other than it is a competitive world out there and we are doing what we can to make sure we are putting out an excellent paper in the communities we serve," he tells the
Times.