How Much Does It Cost to Support Web Journalism?

CoPress had an excellent discussion on the costs and equipment required to maintain web journalism: Investing in Online & the Future of Journalism

Data Mining Rescues Investigative Journalism

Re-posting slashdot's link to Deep Throat Meets Data Mining:

Now, though, the digital revolution that has been undermining in-depth reportage may be ready to give something back, through a new academic and professional discipline known in some quarters as "computational journalism." James Hamilton is director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University and one of the leaders in the emergent field; just now, he's in the process of filling an endowed chair with a professor who will develop sophisticated computing tools that enhance the capabilities — and, perhaps more important in this economic climate, the efficiency — of journalists and other citizens who are trying to hold public officials and institutions accountable.