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"I'm not sure how what this new form will look like," says former Times-Picayune newsman
John McQuaid, who's now a NewAssignment.Net contributing editor. "The newspaper investigation is basically a static form: journalists work for weeks or months on a story. For the most part, nobody in the wider world even knows what they’re doing. Then they publish it. It makes a splash (or not). Maybe it has a broad impact. After the publication date, on some basic level, it’s over. But the web is so dynamic -- an ever-unfolding conversation." ||
Jay Rosen explains NewAssignment.Net's three missions.
