Without fresh, verified facts entering the system, AI struggles to get smarter.
This is why old school reporting — boots-on-the-ground, first-hand, verified — may become the scarcest input in the information economy: the rare earth minerals of the AI age, dug up by human beings.
But who is going to pay for that work, amid declines in advertising, subscriptions, and philanthropic support? At Hunterbrook Media, we think we’ve found one way.
Our model pairs investigative journalism from our newsroom with two other businesses: a fund, Hunterbrook Capital, that can invest based on Hunterbrook Media’s reporting; and a litigation business, Hunterbrook Law, that can use our reporting as the basis of lawsuits against bad actors.
Many of our stories don’t lead to litigation or trading, but those that do can be potent enough to support the entire platform. And every article includes disclosures about how Hunterbrook could make money from its reporting.
Basically, we get paid to be right, to be rigorous. Because if the story is wrong, the investment or the lawsuit fails….
Source: Local investigative reporting will make money again » Nieman Journalism Lab