Democracy’s Detectives
- ISBN-10
- 0674545508
- ISBN-13
- 9780674545502
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-10-10
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- James Hamilton
Description
Investigative journalism holds democracies and individuals accountable to the public. But important stories are going untold as news outlets shy away from the expense of watchdog reporting. Computational journalism, using digital records and data-mining algorithms, promises to lower the cost and increase demand among readers, James Hamilton shows.
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