Investigative journalism : context and practice / edited by Hugo de Burgh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Pt. 1. Context -- 1. Introduction: a higher kind of loyalty? -- 2. The emergence of investigative journalism -- 3. Thirty years of British investigative journalism -- 4. Some issues surrounding investigative journalism -- 5. Critical approaches to the media: the changing context for investigative journalism -- 6. Globalising media agendas: the production of journalism -- 7. The English legal framework for investigative journalism -- 8. The regulatory and ethical framework for investigative journalism -- 9. Journalism and new technology -- Pt. 2. Practice -- 10. Investigating corporate corruption: an example from BBC's File on Four -- 11. Local power and public accountability: an example from the East Midlands -- 12. Scrutinising social policy: an example from Channel 4's Dispatches -- 13. Exposing miscarriages of justice: an example from BBC's Rough Justice -- 14. Gravedigging: the case of 'the Cossacks' -- 15. Pillaging the environmentalists: an example from The Cook Report -- 16. High politics and low behaviour: the Sunday Times Insight -- 17. Interfering with foreigners: an example from First Tuesday -- Endword -- Index.