Not many sites like The Smoking Gun

Cory Bergman April 24th, 2008

The Smoking Gun started 11 years ago as a side project at the Village Voice by crime reporter William Bastone, and it’s still cranking away (although now owned by Time Warner.) “I realize it’s still the infancy of the Net, but it amazes me how few places are doing this sort of stuff,” Bastone tells Mark Glaser on Mediashift. “There are a lot of people commenting on stuff and riffing on things and blogging, but actually reporters breaking stories on the Net — there are a lot fewer than I would expect.”