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Investigative reporting : a study in technique / David Spark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; Boston : Focal Press, 1999Description: xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0240515439
  • 9780240515434
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.43
LOC classification:
  • PN4781. S69 1999
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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 070.43 SPA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A251344B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 070.43 SPA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A247672B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.

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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