Forty Years After Watergate, Investigative Journalism is at Risk
Posted: 6/8/2012 | By: Leonard Downie Jr. | The Washington Post
Investigative reporting in America did not begin with Watergate.
But it became entrenched in American journalism — and has been steadily
spreading around the world — largely because of Watergate.
Now, 40 years after Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote their first stories about the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate office building, the future of investigative reporting is at risk in the chaotic digital reconstruction of journalism in the United States.
Now, 40 years after Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote their first stories about the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate office building, the future of investigative reporting is at risk in the chaotic digital reconstruction of journalism in the United States.