ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book details the huge changes that have taken place in investigative journalism because of the rapid development of computing. It shows how the difficulties caused to investigative journalism by transformations in legacy media are being assuaged through the involvement of new actors. The book summarises the crisis of journalism in the digital, globalised world. It describes the enthusiastic deployment of investigation techniques such as undercover sting operations during the 1990s, used in revelations of corruption, paedophilia and terrorism. The book shows the heights of which Indian investigative journalism is capable and the struggles which it has fought since Independence.
