调查性新闻记者几十年来写报道的心态都很类似:找到坏蛋。我们搜集做坏事的例子存档,如果积累得足够多,我们就可以写故事了。如果故事足够吸引人,或许就会有人呼吁变革。过去25年来,我自己常常使用这个方法写形形色色的报道,从坏警察到坏药剂师再到应受谴责的看护中心和不安全的玩具等等。但是,我也在纳闷:如果我们从更广泛的角度看待调查性新闻报道,用更加新颖的方式撰写会怎样?不是只聚焦在坏蛋上,我们使用自身技能(和许多 The mentality of investigative journalists writing reports for decades is very similar: find the bad guys. We collect examples of bad things to be kept, and if we accumulate enough, we can write stories. If the story is attractive enough, there may be someone calling for change. For the past 25 years, I myself have used this method to write a wide variety of stories, from bad cops to bad chemists to censured care centers and unsafe toys. But I wonder, too: if we look at investigative news coverage from a wider perspective, what’s new in writing? Instead of focusing on the bad guys, we use our skills (and many