Thirty years of British investigative journalism

In the 1960s British newspapers faced competition from television and simultaneously, because of the consumer boom, found advertisers demanding more media space. So the newspapers became bigger, and filled the space with big feature and picture reporting. At the same time Doig (1997) has suggested that there was a climate conducive to scepticism and irreverence that made investigative journalism attractive. These factors may account for its eruption.