It's no wonder that South Africa's media organizations continue to pick up the awards for Investigative journalism, especially continent-wide; they invest time...and resources.
This weekend the Maill & Guardian Centre for Investigative Journalism was set up to "shield probing journalism from commercial pressures" and because; "In a purely commercial environment, good investigative journalism oftenstruggles to compete withinstantly gratifying, fast-food journalism- the kind that sells paper today, but wraps fish tomorrow.
Non-profit, donor-funded models represent an alternative..Adequate funding without a profit motive helps ensure that the publics interest in the exposure of wrongdoing is served."
The centre's investigators are nicknamed amaBhungane, the isiZulu word for "dung beetles" because they "hope to get to the bottom of the...well, dung, to expose corruption and abuse of power wherever they find it."
See the website which even has a 'donate' button and snippets of stories investigated here: www.amabhungane.co.za
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