Technological advances and new communication platforms are gaining more space in communication vehicles every day. Practical and powerful, the tools serve as great allies to facilitate day-to-day journalistic investigation. However, they also brought a series of changes to the news production routine - not all of them positive. With the downsizing of newsrooms and mass layoffs, the lack of investment in journalistic companies led to the maxim of doing more with less. One of the most affected segments in this sense is the investigative journalism, which, despite being considered one of the most prestigious and noble of the profession, demands time and a high investment. Faced with this, a new phenomenon has emerged -journalism about investigations, which has increasingly advanced due to the ease of access to sources, with less costs. Using this scenario as context, this study analyzed reports published on the country s main news website (G1), which had an investigative tone, but were guided by ongoing investigations by official sources. The main objective of this work is to understand how sources, which can be considered news builders, influence the advancement of this phenomenon and its risks and consequences.