On Monday, Fahrenthold's investigative digging was rewarded with the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's most prestigious award.
And Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Romney remain a focus of investigative digging by rivals, bloggers and journalists.
Sacharaissa Cripslock in Terry Pratchett's The Truth – an inverted All The President's Men in which investigative digging serves to preserve a leader in power – does admirable work.
The Times has been working on "enterprise" – that is, journalism that it produces itself, usually through investigative digging or other deep reporting – with The Guardian and ProPublica based on leaked information from the N.S.A.
Soon afterward he made Ms. Boo his No. 2, responsible not just for writing but also for editing the work of others, and from there she moved up the ladder to The Washington Monthly and then The Post, where she became known for the way she combined investigative digging, on-the-street reporting and brilliant writing.
Of course, box scores and earnings reports are one thing, but analytical reporting that requires source work and investigative digging or cultural insight will be more difficult (and even impossible?) to automate.
Preventive treatments aren't lucrative in a medical industry based around surgery and medication, and O'Hara does her own investigative digging into the web of medical, pharmaceutical, food industries and political systems incentivized to make us less healthy.
An investigative journalist digs deeper into the seemingly open-and-shut case and masquerades as a malcontented loser-drifter to get "inside" the Parallax Corporation.
I've spent the past decade as an investigative reporter, digging through the numbers behind everything from offshore financial records to the intelligence agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
8. KRIS DAVIS "Duopoly" (Pyroclastic) Ms. Davis, a pianist of investigative instinct, digs in separately with eight worthy partners, including the clarinetist Don Byron, the drummer Marcus Gilmore and the guitarist Julian Lage.
Besides interviewing the Beales' friends and relatives, "I did investigative work, digging into microfilm and tracking down and going through all their stuff" in order to move the complicated back story beyond speculation, Mr. Sucsy said.
