As the digital era inexorably expands its influence, doom and gloom stories about traditional media are a recurrent cultural theme, and this includes apocryphal tales about the decline and fall of investigative reporting. Andrea Carson is a former journalist and now works in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University. And she has a very different story to tell based on her extensive study of investigative journalism practices around the world. In this edition of Communication Mixdown, she takes us through her findings, just published as a book entitled 'Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age'.