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The Three Lifesavers, According to Daniel Santoro

October 18, 2013
One of the founders of the Clarín newspaper’s investigative team spoke with In situ about what serves as a “lifeline” for journalism in an era of new technologies and changing news consumption habits. Despite this new media landscape, Daniel Santoro asserted that the best tool a journalist can have is “a good pair of shoes” to get out on the street in search of information.

The research team at Clarín was founded by Daniel Santoro, among others. Today, there are four journalists who are outside the daily routine and must prepare a three-page report every Sunday.

“There is still an audience interested in reading investigative journalism,” Santoro said in an interview with In situ, “as evidenced, for example, by the ratings for Lanata’s show.”

“I believe that in the face of the technological revolution that is forcing the media to change, we will have three lifelines: ethics, narrative journalism, and investigative journalism.”

Santoro says that with new technologies, investigative journalism has “changed a lot”: there are now tools for managing databases, a task that used to have to be done manually, “searching through extensive paper archives.”

“But no database is going to replace a good source of information,” he points out. “The best tool for a journalist is still a pair of shoes: getting out there to find the information.”

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