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Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is making good on his promise to shake up journalism by funding Sharesleuth.com, an investigative business journalism site which he earlier described as "a blog that will do nothing but try to uncover corporate fraud." The site was founded by St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Christopher Carey, who has officially resigned to work on the site, which goes live next month. Cuban confirmed to PaidContent's Staci Kramer that platforms would include "the site, HDnet and HDnet films...and that's just the beginning."
On May 31st, Cuban wrote an entry on his blog called "Why Journalism Matters," calling on a new generation of sleuths, muckrakers, and would-be journos to challenge the form and generate the content they wanted to see. He invited journalism students "that can uncover stories others cant [sic] find and tell them in a way that others want to read" to contact him. PaidContent reports that Carey will be working with "stringers and input from a broad network of non-journalists who have an interest in the subject."
