I’ve got a couple of cousins and their spouses in town this weekend (from Portland and Colorado Springs) to scatter their dad’s ashes at sea. I think he was the last of his generation of our family.

Well, actually, we are 2nd cousins, but since we’ve all gotten to know each other, it feels like just cousins. We’ll be on the boat just a little later this morning, and we end the day here at our place for dinner. In between, perhaps, some mid-day libations. Then they head off for a week or so in Kona. So I won’t be posting anything more substantive until tomorrow.

In the meantime, ponder this story published a few years ago by the Atlantic: “These Journalists Spent Two Years and $750,000 Covering One Story.”

They used Pro Publica’s [“infestation”?? What insane auto correct put that there??] investigation of Tylenol as an example of the kind of in-depth journalism that is struggling to find a firm financial base for the future. Of course, few investigative reporters ever get to work on stories of that breadth, complexity, and duration, but it helps make the point.

And earlier this year, Bill Moyers listed out ten of the top sources of investigative reporting worth bookmarking.

Lots of good reading to be found there.