ABSTRACT
Investigative journalism has been defined as an attempt to ‘discover the truth and to identify lapses from it in whatever media may be available . . . distinct from apparently similar work done by police, lawyers, auditors and regulatory bodies in that it is not limited as to target, not legally founded and it is closely connected to publicity’.1 To this definition should be added consideration of the way in which the law shapes both the methods employed and editorial agenda pursued by investigative journalists and their publishers.2
