Investigative reporters are crucial checks on both government and the citizenry. They have dwindled greatly in supply in an era when many journalistic outlets are facing declining revenues and other now-infamous struggles.
This is especially true in large, local markets like Las Vegas where enough chicanery goes on to keep an army of such reporters busy.
But the ranks of Las Vegas investigative reporters had already been diminished before Jeff German of the Las Vegas Review-Journal was found dead with stab wounds outside his Las Vegas home on Saturday morning. Police told his newspaper they believed he was in “an altercation with another person” and that the cause of his death was homicide.
