ABSTRACT
Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism is a detailed guide to transnational reporting, a cutting-edge journalistic strategy. In the twenty-first century, the most pressing political and social issues, such as financial crises, wealth inequality, migration flows and environmental collapse, transcend national borders. In reaction, journalists are increasingly collaborating across the globe to produce impactful and in-depth reporting. Recent agenda-setting cross-border collaborations include LuxLeaks, Panama Papers and Football Leaks.
Brigitte Alfter takes the reader, step-by-step, through the history of cross-border collaborative journalism and the current working practices behind it. The book draws from the author’s own experience, as well as exclusive interviews with other pioneers of cross-border journalism, and notable case studies are integrated throughout.
Chapters cover:
- Managing intercultural communication
- Effectively utilising a network of sources
- Choosing the initial story idea
- Fact-checking for cross-border publication
- Adapting the findings to different audiences and to different types of media
- Legal and security considerations for a cross-border team.
By providing the essential practical skills for transnational reporting, Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism encourages students of journalism and practitioners to undertake their own collaborative projects. It highlights the importance of this exciting new journalistic form to answering the defining questions of our time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|32 pages
Cross-border journalism
chapter 2|14 pages
What is cross-border journalism?
part II|118 pages
The work process from idea to publication and beyond
chapter 8|7 pages
Enriching each other
chapter 11|10 pages
Opportunities and challenges
part III|20 pages
Overall editorial tasks
part IV|13 pages
The meta-level