Investigative journalism

Five years ago, the word in the media was that investigative journalism was dying. No longer would corruption and morality be kept in check through journalists such as Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (Nellie Bly), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and Seymour Hersh. (The Ring Of Fire Network 2015) What happened to investigative journalism in the first place? The short answer: it was about the money. Traditional investigative reporting is very expensive and time-consuming. It requires

Investigative reporting has been a driving force in journalism for centuries. The reporting tradition of revealing misconduct was already well established much before the 20th Century. Its practise even predates the publication of the first successful colonial newspaper in 1704, demonstrating the press’ watchdog role has had deep historical roots in democracy much prior to the 1960s. Over the past three centuries, investigative reporters have tried to make a difference by raising public consciousness

I N T R O D U C T I O N “A free, aggressive, open and bold press is part of the spiritual core of our Democracy”. -Thomas Jefferson In the world we are living today, investigative journalism is becoming a significant part in our daily lives as it informs, unleash and reveals us the happenings in our community, society, government and in the country. Having the democracy to exercise and express our freedom of the press, which was have been suppressed before, during the Marcos regime, we can say

Investigative Journalism ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Rajashri Venkatesh Ameet Kaur Abhishek Baldota Avinash Kaur Bedi Kawaljeet Singh Chandhok Divya Chitroda Shilpa Das Aakash Prabhakar Kashish Kapoor ` An investigative report is a document that is meant to provide information on a certain topic that is not easily obtained. It is meant to present the reader with a wealth of easily understood information and usually contains an interview or two on the subject. In order to

Methodology My proposal focuses on a particular set of cultural practices, organizations, productions, and identities, such as those mobilized by the performance of investigative journalism in Chile in a post-authoritarian moment. I am particularly acknowledging culture’s conception as a process and a set of practices and not a collection of things (Hall, cited by Rose, 2016: 2), constituted by “interworked systems of construable signs” by which culture is actually a context within which “social

the journalistic field in a wider and strong way that other cultural transformations did before within the cultural field. Doing so, says Bourdieu, television and journalistic field have also triggered transformations in other fields upon which journalism has an impact. As it is performed, the journalistic field tends to reinforce the economic (commercial) field instead of the pure one. Following Bourdieu, the journalistic field was settled during the 19th Century through the opposition between the

eso es lo que define tu capacidad de grandeza Eduardo Galeano (interviewed by Faúndez, 2002: 11) The narratives and the evidence about the status of IJ in Latin America are contradictory. For some, there is an increasing practice of this genre of journalism (Alves, 2005; Castillo, 2016; Joyce, Saldaña, Schmitz Weiss, & Alves, 2017) while for others, there is a relative declining of it (Dermota, 2002). These perceptions heavily depends on the chosen type of medium (newspapers, television, digital),

high-ranking financial pundits might partially explain why despite a large number of business stories issued during the crisis the media remained baffled and uncertain about the length and depth of the downturn. However, that financial journalism put aside investigative reporting, as well as the fact that it could not adopt a critical view about the functioning of the system and identified

During my time at Brandeis, I have been exposed to a number of experiences in the realm of journalism that have formed my confidence to continue pursuing submersion in the field as an intern at the API. My ultimate goal is to polish my abilities and to put my knowledge and previous experience into practice through this internship. My experience commenced writing for The Brandeis Hoot, one of the university’s newspapers, in the arts and opinions’ sections. I covered play reviews, art galleries, concerts

Are drone strikes justifiable, or are they just the opposite? Some argue that drone strikes are not the best course of action against suspected terrorists. Because of the the large amount of civilian deaths caused by the poor methods of targeting, the moral aspects of this method, and the legality of this strategy. Though, many people who would disagree with my reasoning would have other things to say about it. Arguments against these ideas are directed towards the thought of drone strikes being