ABSTRACT

This third edition maps the new world of investigative journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energised journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences for politics and business worldwide. 

In this new edition, expert contributors demonstrate how crowdsourcing, big data, globalisation of information, and changes in media ownership and funding have escalated the impact of investigative journalists. The book includes case studies of investigative journalism from around the world, including the exposure of EU corruption, the destruction of the Malaysian environment, and investigations in China, Poland and Turkey. From Ibero-America to Nigeria, India to the Arab world, investigative journalists intensify their countries’ evolution by inquisition and revelation.

This new edition reveals how investigative journalism has gone digital and global. Investigative Journalism is essential for all those intending to master global politics, international relations, media and justice in the 21st century.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

part I|108 pages

Context

chapter 2|14 pages

National security

chapter 4|16 pages

Digital sleuthing 1

chapter 5|14 pages

Kill one and a dozen return

chapter 7|11 pages

Mission-driven journalism

chapter 8|12 pages

Grassroots operations

part II|161 pages

Places

chapter 9|12 pages

China and the digital era

chapter 10|12 pages

Syria

The war and before

chapter 11|13 pages

Survival in Turkey

chapter 12|13 pages

Poland since 1989

chapter 13|12 pages

India’s paradox

chapter 14|16 pages

Malaysia

A case study in global corruption

chapter 15|14 pages

Ten years in Nigeria

chapter 19|12 pages

United Kingdom

Reporting of the far-right

chapter 20|11 pages

The United Kingdom’s Private Eye

The ‘club’ the powerful fear

chapter |4 pages

Afterword

Manifesto for investigative journalism in the 21st century