Investigative Journalism Context and Practice

Name: Investigative Journalism Context and Practice
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ISBN: 9780415190534

ISBN-10: 0415190533

ISBN-13: 9780415190534

Edition: 2000

Authors: Hugo De Burgh

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This introduction to investigative journalism explains how investigative journalism should be understood within the framework of the mass media, how it relates to the legal system, the place of ethics, and the influence of technologies.

Book details

List price: $147.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/22/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Hugo de Burgh is professor and director at the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster.



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements



Context



Introduction: a higher kind of loyalty?



The emergence of investigative journalism



Thirty years of British investigative journalism



Some issues surrounding investigative journalism



Critical approaches to the media: the changing context for investigative journalism



Globalising media agendas: the production of journalism



The English legal framework for investigative journalism



The regulatory and ethical framework for investigative journalism



Journalism and new technology



Practice



Investigating corporate corruption: an example from BBC's File on Four



Local power and public accountability: an example from the East Midlands



Scrutinising social policy: an example from Channel 4's Dispatches



Exposing miscarriages of justice: an example from BBC's Rough Justice



Gravedigging: the case of 'the Cossacks'



Pillaging the environmentalists: an example from The Cook Report



High politics and low behaviour: the Sunday Times Insight



Interfering with foreigners: an example from First Tuesday


Endword


Index