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Custodians of Conscience presents research on the nature of investigative journalism as a form of social and moral inquiry, and this investigation of journalists and their work focuses on the tensions and contradictions that characterize modern American journalism. Through in-depth interviews with award-winning investigative reporters and detailed analyses of the stories that brought them professional acclaim, the authors have sought to understand how journalists resolve, practically if not conceptually, the paradox of a press committed to exposing wrongdoing and at the same time adamant about its disinterest in questions of right and wrong.