Katrina Brooker of LinkedIn interviewed Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation founder Roddy Boyd about his work digging into companies and finding stories.
Here is an excerpt:
Do you really consider yourself the only reporter doing financial fraud investigations?
There is not really anybody else dedicated to investigating all corporate, all financial fraud journalistically as a living — on the not-for-profit side. Some others dip into it from time to time but I don’t really see anyone else is doing it full time.
Once a year there is company that steps into a bear trap. They get into trouble and it becomes open season on them. I am not talking about that company. I mean going after a large name that is not already in trouble.
A lot of people will do a “There could be trouble…” types of pieces. Or people are willing to write about smoldering embers after a business crashes. There are so few journalists out there that are really going to write anything painful to a company that is an ongoing business — before the lawsuit hits or before the real trouble starts.
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