Personally, I suspect a lot of future reporting (both news and investigative) is probably going to become the domain of amateurs now that the internet has cannibalised the rest of the business.<p>Doing it as part of an actual, professional business is probably just about impossible at this point.  News, ads and gossip funded stuff like this in the days before the internet, and with the way the net is going now (aka people are getting said things from dedicated sites), that&#x27;s not really a model that&#x27;s ever going to be viable again.<p>But yeah, I think its just amateurs and volunteers from this point on.  The kind of people who do stuff like scambaiting and online predator hunting&#x2F;trapping, except focused on slightly more low key affairs.