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Is there a list of investigative gaming journalists that I can follow? (2019 Edition)

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I lost my personal list, so I don't have much to go with.

I was thinking maybe ResetEra has a compilation list of respectable gaming journalists out there, neatly labeled, and such. It is, after all, the internet.

If not, I can try my best to compile the ones you know about, deemed information worthy, is really good at the depth of investigations in the past, and has garnered a following. I'm okay with trustyworthy journalists, but shady company, because I only deem the qualities of the journalist, not based on the reputation of the company the journalist works at.

I'm very biased towards anything Nintendo-related contents and game development side of things, but I think it would be nice if I create a thread dedicated for everyone to share their lists, to follow up on the gaming industry as a whole.

Here's my poorly-written list off the top of my head in alphabetical order. I welcome any contributions to help me get back my list, and will add them slowly I guess, since I'm the OP anyway...

(EDIT: Also, please let me know where they usually lurk, so I can correctly categorize them in the list below.)


Kotaku:

Jason Schreier (jschreier )

GameInformer

Imran Khan

Twitter:
Amanda Farough
Ben Moore (Easy Allies)
Cecilia D'Anastasio
Emily Rogers
Emma Kent
@hobbesenero
Imran Khan
Japanese Nintendo
Jeremy Penter
Kirk McKeand
Liam Robertson
Mike Futter
Takashi Mochizuki

YouTube:

Easy Allies (Ben Moore)
GameXplain
Gamers Nexus
LinusTechTips
Spawn Wave


Waypoint:

Austin Walker
Patrick Klepek
 
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Did Schreier report on the whole THQ fiasco?
 
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Ben Moore. One of the most open-minded, reasonable, and enthusiastic journalists in gaming today. The one member of Easy Allies I respect the most.
 
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The only thing I have ever crowd funded or Parteoned are The Easy Allies.

They have earned my respect and my $84
 
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The Blocc
ACG
Easy Allies
Worth a Buy (to an extent, when he's not spending half of a review trashing a game because "it's a console port" or "I can't rebind my keys")
AngryJoe (if you have time to watch an hour long review of a game that should only take 10 minutes to do, at best)
Podquisition

That's about it
 
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Depends what you're looking for. If you're wanting reporters that will find the big stories (as opposed to it just coming to them), Waypoint's Patrick Klepek and Kotaku's Jason Schreier are two. EDIT: And Cecilia D'Anastasio from Kotaku who received an award in digital news from the Writer's Guild of America for her reporting on sexism at Riot Games.

If you're also looking for good critics and analysts, that list gets bigger.
 
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A bunch of obvious ones have already been listed, the Waypoint bunch (Austin and Patrick) get my vote of course, Jason Schreir too. I'd like to add:

Cecilia D'Anastasio
Emma Kent

Also not really journalist, as he makes documentaries, but Danny O'Dwyer should absolutely be on your list
 
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Damn Silly said:
Depends what you're looking for. If you're wanting reporters that will find the big stories (as opposed to it just coming to them), Waypoint's Patrick Klepek and Kotaku's Jason Schreier are two.

If you're also looking for good critics and analysts, that list gets reasonably bigger.
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Just respectable journalists, no need for analysts and critics. :D
 
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Most of them. Spread the love.
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Also this.

I think you have to dig deeper to expose compromised game journalists.

Everyone has their own style, from strictly comedic to strictly academic and everything in between. Many wearing several hats in the continuum (i.e. Jeff Gerstmann).

But I get the sense that most anyone* willing to devote their livelihood to such an unforgiving and unappreciative vocation like games coverage is doing it for the sheer passion of the sport.

* gass-lighting alt-right fools aside (but hey, I guess they serve an audience too).
 
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Hmm. Weird thread. Not sure I like the implication that most games journalists aren't 'respectable' (whatever that actually means). I know you didn't mean it this way, but there is an echo of Gamergate about that sort of phrasing.

Also- basically everyone at Kotaku is brilliant. I hope the 'shady company' comment wasn't about them. Sick of seeing unfounded anti-Kotaku stuff on ERA.

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Just respectable journalists, no need for analysts and critics. :D
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What does this mean?
 
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Great topic by the way. What a tightrope.

It's clear that some journalists don't actually play the games, and just write outrageous headlines for clickbait.

If you want an example, you should google search 'Spider-Man ps4 gets the worst game review ever'

edit* I like reading Jason Schreier's pieces and hearing Ben Moore's take on things.
 
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Council Pop said:
Hmm. Weird thread. Not sure I like the implication that most games journalists aren't 'respectable' (whatever that actually means). I know you didn't mean it this way, but there is an echo of Gamergate about that sort of phrasing.

Also- basically everyone at Kotaku is brilliant. I hope the 'shady company' comment wasn't about them. Sick of seeing unfounded anti-Kotaku stuff on ERA.



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I'm mostly following reporters, or news. Just news in general.

When I think of "analysts", I mainly think of business insiders, financials, the market, the sales numbers, and business side of the corporations.

When I think of "critics", I mainly think of video game reviews, gameplay, the discussion of whether a game is good or bad, and such.

For "analysts" and "critics" I think those are fine for me, but it is not what I wanted for this thread.

EDIT: I didn't see your edit.

You're right about "respectable journalist" part. It's not clear for others. I should be saying, "known for investigative journalism", not respectable.

And no, I was referring to a media company in the past who a small journalist uncovered from shady things in the parent company, but that's outside of the gaming industry. It's definitely not Kotaku or other places, maybe I should remove that line.
 

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delete12345 said:
Keep them coming, I'm slowly adding them all.



Yes, I admit that 100% positively blatantly correct. :D
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Well now it's getting better. I don't know if he counts as a journalist but Kotaku's Tim Rogers might make some of my favorite gaming content ever. (And even if he doesn't count you put Linus on there so...)
 
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delete12345 said:
I'm mostly following reporters, or news. Just news in general.

When I think of "analysts", I mainly think of business insiders, financials, the market, the sales numbers, and business side of the corporations.

When I think of "critics", I mainly think of video game reviews, gameplay, the discussion of whether a game is good or bad, and such.

For "analysts" and "critics" I think those are fine for me, but it is not what I wanted for this thread.
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I really don't think there is anywhere near enough video game news for anyone to simply be a 'news reporter'. Jason and Cecilia from Kotaku may do big reports about the industry etc, but a lot of their work is also analysis of games themselves. Most video game news is press releases and leaks, nothing more.
 

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It's ridiculous that Jeff Gerstmann hasn't been mentioned yet, or anyone currently at GB for that matter.
 
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delete12345 said:
It's the only place I follow about the PC industry in general. But hopefully someone tells me other alternatives. :D
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I follow him as well, but I now that whatever he will "teach" me in 15 minutes I can learn in 2 minutes here. So if your goal is to know what is new, better to keep up with the few PC OT we have here.

I cant suggest anything else because I'm not into PC gaming.
 

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Jim Sterling should be on your list. Technically he's probably more commentary than journalism but so are most of the people you've listed.
 
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It's ridiculous that Jeff Gerstmann hasn't been mentioned yet, or anyone currently at GB for that matter.
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I love them, but this thread is about game journalists in a news breaking sense, I feel. When is the last time you've seen any of them break any news? They're awesome, but that's just not what they do, at least not since Patrick and Austin left.
 
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Spyder_Monkey said:
Well now it's getting better. I don't know if he counts as a journalist but Kotaku's Tim Rogers might make some of my favorite gaming content ever. (And even if he doesn't count you put Linus on there so...)
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Sure. Added.


Council Pop said:
I really don't think there is anywhere near enough video game news for anyone to simply be a 'news reporter'. Jason and Cecilia from Kotaku may do big reports about the industry etc, but a lot of their work is also analysis of games themselves. Most video game news is press releases and leaks, nothing more.
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(hmmms)

Now that you mentioned it, I guess I got the whole "journalism" part completely wrong...

Thanks for the info.

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It's ridiculous that Jeff Gerstmann hasn't been mentioned yet, or anyone currently at GB for that matter.
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EDIT: Someone pointed out Jeff is more towards gameplay reviews. Sorry, but I'll have to remove him.

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I follow him as well, but I now that whatever he will "teach" me in 15 minutes I can learn in 2 minutes here. So if your goal is to know what is new, better to keep up with the few PC OT we have here.

I cant suggest anything else because I'm not into PC gaming.
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I see. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
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Nugnip said:
I love them, but this thread is about game journalists in a news breaking sense, I feel. When is the last time you've seen any of them break any news? They're awesome, but that's just not what they do, at least not since Patrick and Austin left.
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I want to apologize and say I got everything wrong about gaming journalists. :(
 
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delete12345 said:
Sure. Added.

EDIT: Someone pointed out Jeff is more towards gameplay reviews. Sorry, but I'll have to remove him.
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You don't seem to know what you actually want from this thread.

You add Tim Rogers to your list and take off Jeff Gerstmann. Tim Rogers is primarily focused on reviews.

Honestly, I don't think you actually know what you're looking for. Videogame journalists that purely focus on news simply don't exist. They all dabble in reviews and analysis.
 
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Liam1884 said:
You don't seem to know what you actually want from this thread.

You add Tim Rogers to your list and take off Jeff Gerstmann. Tim Rogers is primarily focused on reviews.

Honestly, I don't think you actually know what you're looking for. Videogame journalists that purely focus on news simply don't exist. They all dabble in reviews and analysis.
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I really don't. That's why I thought maybe the internet knows more than I do, and I'm just adding them to the list.

I'm removing Tim Rogers then. Thanks.
 
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I really don't. That's why I thought maybe the internet knows more than I do, and I'm just adding them to the list.

I'm removing Tim Rogers then. Thanks.
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The thing is, game journalism as is doesn't support anyone to *just* be an investigative reporter. Even Jason and Patrick write reviews and opinion pieces.

Sites have to exist off ad revenue and views and most sites can't afford a writer to go through full investigative pieces when the unfortunate truth is other stuff gets the same or more views for A LOT less work.

If you're trying to grab a list of writers that have done investigative pieces that's fine but you won't find anyone that does solely that.
 
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gaiages said:
The thing is, game journalism as is doesn't support anyone to *just* be an investigative reporter. Even Jason and Patrick write reviews and opinion pieces.

Sites have to exist off ad revenue and views and most sites can't afford a writer to go through full investigative pieces when the unfortunate truth is other stuff gets the same or more views for A LOT less work.

If you're trying to grab a list of writers that have done investigative pieces that's fine but you won't find anyone that does solely that.
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Thank you for the information.
 
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delete12345 said:
I lost my personal list, so I don't have much to go with.

I was thinking maybe ResetEra has a compilation list of respectable gaming journalists out there, neatly labeled, and such. It is, after all, the internet.

If not, I can try my best to compile the ones you know about, deemed information worthy, is really good at the depth of investigations in the past, and has garnered a following. I'm okay with trustyworthy journalists, but shady company, because I only deem the qualities of the journalist, not based on the reputation of the company the journalist works at.

I'm very biased towards anything Nintendo-related contents and game development side of things, but I think it would be nice if I create a thread dedicated for everyone to share their lists, to follow up on the gaming industry as a whole.

Here's my poorly-written list off the top of my head in alphabetical order. I welcome any contributions to help me get back my list, and will add them slowly I guess, since I'm the OP anyway...

(EDIT: Also, please let me know where they usually lurk, so I can correctly categorize them in the list below.)


Kotaku:

Jason Schreier (jschreier )

GameInformer

Imran Khan

Twitter:
Amanda Farough
Ben Moore (Easy Allies)
Cecilia D'Anastasio
Emily Rogers
Emma Kent
@hobbesenero
Imran Khan
Japanese Nintendo
Jeremy Penter
Kirk McKeand
Liam Robertson
Mike Futter
Takashi Mochizuki

YouTube:

Easy Allies (Ben Moore)
GameXplain
Gamers Nexus
LinusTechTips
Spawn Wave


Waypoint:

Austin Walker
Patrick Klepek
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Well my sincere thanks for having me on the list man. Seriously.
 
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