“It’s extremely troubling, some of the leading investigative journalists in this country have been given golden parachutes or laid off,” said Barry Scheck, the co-founder of the Innocence Project in New York, which is affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. “When procedural mechanisms begin to fail, the press is the last resort for the public to find out the truth.”

Wrongful conviction investigations often require extensive travel and months of research. These days, the money isn't there for stories that can't be written in a day. That's typically beeen true for "in the moment" broadcast journalism, but the regional and local newspapers that once kept a watchful eye on the judicial system no longer have the resources to do serious investigative reporting. The criminal justice system and the wrongly convicted (and government in general) will suffer as serious mistakes go undiscovered and uncorrected.