Who are the gatekeepers of news? How effective is investigative reporting in informing the public?

Gatekeepers are media people influencing messages en route. They decide what stories to tell in the newsroom and how they are told. They are invisible to the news audience, only working behind the scenes. Investigative reporting is enterprise reporting that reveals new information, often startling; mot often these are stories that official sources would rather not have told. Today’s newspapers continue this tradition. It is effective in revealing truths about government or business that other reporting covers up. For example Jim Hummel, founder of The Hummel Report, revealing shocking truths about the past of someone running for election in Rhode Island. Without investigative reporting, society would be uninformed of the truth. Investigative reporting dates back into history when Richard Nixon was president during the Watergate scandal. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were reporters of the Washington Post who dug up the revelations.