Investigative journalism : context and practice / edited by Hugo de Burgh. - vii, 325 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. 2. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

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Investigative reporting
Journalism.

PN4781. / I57 2000

070.43