ShareSleuth's Carey has more resources

Chris Carey, the investigative business journalist who is doing the reporting and the writing at the ShareSleuth.com Web site funded by billionaire Mark Cuban, said he has more resources to do investigative stories than when he was a business reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

MediaShift’s Mark Glaser wrote, “Carey can now stretch out, take his time with investigations, and not worry that his investigative budget will be cut because he’s not producing sexy work. Without advertising or subscription fees, there’s also less chance for outside pressure on his work from advertisers or paid subscribers.

“‘I’m free to pursue stories without concern for beat, geography or anything else that tends to limit your worldview when working for a local or regional news organization,’ Carey said via email. ‘There’s no bureaucracy to navigate, so I can move more quickly. And my audience is not only national but global. I also have more resources than I did in my previous job [at the Post-Dispatch] — more money for travel, more money for online information services, more money for other tools of the trade. The only thing that could remotely be considered bad is that, as a one-man operation, there’s no way I can get to all the promising stories that our readers have suggested to us.’

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