Download or read book Democracy’s Detectives written by James T. Hamilton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative journalism holds democracies and individuals accountable to the public. But important stories are going untold as news outlets shy away from the expense of watchdog reporting. Computational journalism, using digital records and data-mining algorithms, promises to lower the cost and increase demand among readers, James Hamilton shows.