Anthony Hilton: Web culture leads to lazy journalism

By Anthony Hilton, prweek.com, 02 February 2012, 8:00am

I was reminiscing with someone who for years has been one of the leaders in investigative financial journalism, when he caused a surprise by saying how much easier the job had become. These days, he said, so few journalists have the time or the inclination to do the basics. The simplest bit of digging will turn up a good story that everyone has missed.