David Spark

Investigative Reporting (eBook, ePUB)

A study in technique

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 PhilbyInvestigative 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136029455
• Artikelnr.: 38242833

Autorenporträt

David Spark

Inhaltsangabe

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
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