Investigative Reporting
A study in technique
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 18 November 1999
- ISBN 9780240515434
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
This important book defines what investigative reporting is and what qualities it requires. Drawing on the experience of many well-known journalists in the field, the author identifies the skills, common factors and special circumstances involved in a wide variety of investigations. It examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. It also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows real life examples such as the Cook Report formula, the Jonathan Aitken investigation and the Birmingham Six story.
David Spark, himself a freelance writer of wide experience, examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. He also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows investigators at work in two classic inquiries:
· The mysterious weekend spent in Paris by Jonathan Aitken, then Minister of Defence Procurement
· The career of masterspy Kim Philby
Investigative Reporting looks at such fields for inquiry as company frauds (including those of Robert Maxwell), consumer complaints, crime, police malpractice, the intelligence services, local government and corruption in Parliament and in overseas and international bodies.
The author believes that the conclusions that emerge from this far-reaching survey are of value not only in investigative journalism, but to practitioners in all branches of reporting.
'A sensible and well-researched handbook which breaks new ground and pretty well covers the waterfront.'
David Leigh, British Journalism Review
Table of Contents:
What is investigative reporting?
The making of an investigative reporter
Insight and the development of techniques
Finding the stories
Pursuing inquiries I: Doing it right
Pursuing inquiries II: Getting it right
Finding the people
Dealing with documents
Getting people to talk
Writing it: problems and pitfalls
Two classic investigations
Looking into companies
The Maxwell investigations
Social and consumer affairs
Crime
Trail of the bent coppers
Security and intelligence
Investigating local government
Sleaze
Cruelty and corruption
Investigating abroad
Books for further reading
People who helped with this book
Council information open to public view
Press Complaints Commission - Code of Practice
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