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Local News Sites Pick Up The Investigative Beat Traditional news outlets are cutting jobs. Investigative reporters are often among those receiving pink slips. But hyper-local news website Voice of San Diego won one of investigative journalism's highest awards. Is hyper-local online reporting the future of journalism?

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Local News Sites Pick Up The Investigative Beat

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Local News Sites Pick Up The Investigative Beat

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Traditional news outlets are cutting jobs. Investigative reporters are often among those receiving pink slips.

But hyper-local news website Voice of San Diego won one of investigative journalism's highest awards.

Is hyper-local online reporting the future of journalism?

Guests:

Andrew Donohue, editor for Voice of San Diego

Jon Brod, co-owner and CEO of Patch