CJR: Blazing Trails, Changing Paths

Posted on | August 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

By Curtis Brainard
The News Frontier, The Observatory — August 03, 2010 12:48 p.m.

When Investigate West, an investigative journalism site, sprung up last summer after the virtual collapse of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, we called its founders—former P-I staffers committed to finding a fresh models for the news business—the “new pioneers of the west.”

Now, a little more than a year later, those pioneers have established a respectable and relatively stable homestead, and earned the esteem of the news partners to whom they have farmed content so far. Life on the frontier hasn’t gotten any easier, though. Members of Investigate West’s small staff worked on “sweat equity” until June, when they finally began paying themselves, and they have had to adapt in order to survive.

Read the entire story at Columbia Journalism Review.

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