(Via Martin Turner)

Talking Points Memo Muckraker combines smart-mob citizen investigators with seasoned journalism. Josh Marshall explains:

Now, one other point I’d like to make. I had the idea to start this new site for a few different reasons. One was that I’d like to have a site like this that I could read. Another was that I’ve been increasingly interested in blogs as a hybrid form of journalism.

But the most immediate reason is this: Most of the stuff I come up with on TPM starts with readers — tips, insights that shed new light on already reported stories, pointers to articles, scuttlebutt that a little reporting can turn into hard news. I’ve discussed this before on the site. But the stream of emails we get into the site everyday is a resource of simply inestimable value — something journalists with conventional publications just don’t have access to. But as the site has grown, the volume of tips and leads has grown. But my ability to run them down has remained pretty static. So lots of good leads and stories just go unpursued.

But I figured that with a couple hungry reporters who could devote themselves to doing this full-time and a few interns to help them, we could bust open a lot more stories, make more trouble and just have a lot more fun. So that’s what we’re going to try to do.

From you, here’s what we need. Keep the tips coming. It’s as easy as clicking the comments link and shooting us a quick email. They all get read. Are you up on the hill? Tell us the scuttlebutt you’re hearing. Keep us posted. Have a lead for a story? Want to discreetly pass it on? Let us know. Have documents? We want documents. See a story that needs more attention? Drop us a line and we’ll get right on it.

They’ve got muck; we’ve got rakes.

(Via Martin Turner)
Talking Points Memo Muckraker combines smart-mob citizen investigators with seasoned journalism. Josh Marshall explains:

Now, one other point I’d like to make. I had the idea to start this new site for a few different reasons. One was that I’d like to have a site like this that I could read. Another was that [...]