Zane Schwartz on startup investigative journalism

Zane created the Investigative Journalism Foundation to bring public-interest databases into a country where transparency is scarce and reliable data is scarcer.

The week I was unceremoniously canned from my editing job along with half of my team, a lot of people asked me if we were going to start our own thing. It would have made a certain amount of sense; the four of us had a good reputation locally and a readership that had shown it was willing to pay for our work. Given that three of the remaining staff quit…