assurance contracts for investigative reporting
The economist talks about the economics of newspapers, and in the comments one reader says “I’d pay for investigative reporting”. The only stuff of value that the Globe does is exposes of corruption. I suggest the use of assurance contracts. Two or three Globe reporters (or freelancers) work for 2-3 months to gather data that exposes politicians handing out parking spaces to friends, or state troopers pulling details and sleeping in their cars, or priests molesting kids and their higher ups doing nothing … and then give the public just a whiff, and say that 100,000 $1 bids are necessary to release the story.
I’d kick in a dollar for every single expose.
