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	Investigative journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Investigative journalism is a branch of journalism that usually concentrates on a very specific topic, and typically requires a lot of work to yield results.
		The classic example is the uncovering of the Watergate Scandal by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, resulting in reports being published in the Washington Post.
		Where the tools are concerned you as a journalist should have an analytical and incisive mind, a lot of self motivation, and you should be physically and mentally agile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Investigative_journalism (258 words)

	ASNE - Why investigative reporting is still important (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A reporter there discovered that judges in her area were flying off to the Virgin Islands for work conferences â” and underline the word âwork.â You can imagine that not an awful lot of it was being done.
		Investigative reporting matters to Betty Tyson, who was freed after 25 years in a New York prison when a newspaper revealed that police had suppressed evidence that exonerated her of a murder.
		This year Clarion Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell helped bring him to trial by reporting the jury tampering and the fact that one of the participants in the bombing had never served a sentence in state prison.
	www.asne.org /kiosk/archive/convention/conv99/investigative.htm (9404 words)

	Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1985 for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series.
		Petersburg Times (Florida), for their thorough reporting on Pasco County Sheriff John Short, which revealed his department's corruption and led to his removal from office by voters.
		1996: The Orange County Register staff, for reporting that uncovered fraudulent and unethical fertility practices at a leading research university hospital and prompted key regulatory reforms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Investigative_Reporting (754 words)

	Investigative Reporting Today
		Reporters today face questions over the use of anonymous sources, as evidenced by the recent Newsweek controversy over alleged abuse of the Koran.
		The plagiarism that is rampant and tolerated in journalism discredits the work of honest reporters, and ensures that would-be investigative reporters take short-cuts, thereby diluting the value of the work.
		Much of the reporting on the detainees is actually based on government investigative documents or the information from government investigators who are willing to discuss their findings.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/02/DI2005060201136.html (3030 words)

	Journalism.org - Journalism Tools: Reporting - Watchdog Reporting - Original Investigative Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Probably the best-known type of watchdog reporting, original investigative reporting involves reporters themselves uncovering and documenting activities that have been previously unknown to the public.
		This is the kind of investigative reporting that often results in official public investigations about the subject or activity exposed, a classic example of the press pushing public institutions on behalf of the public.
		Original investigative reporting would include the work of muck-rakers like Lincoln Steffens, whose Shame of the Cities series in 1904 led to wide-ranging reforms in local government; or Rachel Carson, whose revelations of the effects of pesticide poisoning in her 1962 book Silent Spring launched an international movement to protect the environment.
	journalism.org /resources/tools/reporting/watchdog/original.asp?from=tv (350 words)

	IWMF Investigative Reporting
		But there also is a broader view of what type of story is considered "investigative." Being an investigative reporter means being proactive rather than reactive, whether or not this entails digging up something secret.
		Essentially, investigative reporting means digging beneath the surface and telling your audience what is really going on by emphasizing the "how" and the "why" and not simply the "who," "what," "when," and "where." These tips can help you do just that.
		The goal of a good investigative story is to inform, educate and keep the interest of the reader, viewer or listener.
	www.iwmf.org /training/investigative.php (727 words)

	All reporting is investigative reporting
		Investigative journalism is supposed to expose wrongdoing by digging up facts that have not been dug up before.
		Richard Connolly, at that time the Globe's top investigative reporter, told us he hated the idea that he was called something special.
		He did not mean that every reporter should take six months to write one big story, but that the nature of reporting demands that reporters not blindly accept and repeat everything they are told.
	morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /view/columns/1032916.shtml (837 words)

	Notes for Topic 7: Investigative Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Investigative reporters, especially at African-American newspapers, risked their lives to describe lynchings, Ku Klux Klan violence and virulent racism in the Deep South.
		The three basic elements are that the investigation be the work of the reporter, not a report of an investigation made by someone else; that the subject of the story involves something of reasonable importance to the reader or viewer; and that others are attempting to hide these matters from the public."
		One way they do this is by "following the paper trail." Investigative reporters have a "documents state of mind." They know their way through the mountains of paperwork created by individuals, businesses and governments: from lawsuits and political donations to code violations and tax records.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~jcsouth/par/topic07/notes.htm (511 words)

	MUCKRAKER :: The Website of the Center for Investigative Reporting
		The Harriet Miers nomination to the United States Supreme Court is stirring controversy in various quarters, particularly among the most conservative segments of the the Republican Party.
		Nuclear Proliferation Asher Karni was sentenced August 4 to three years in federal prison for his role in a plot to export...
		Nuclear Underground: U.S. Uncovers Plot to Export Nuclear Weapons Parts to Pakistan CIR investigates the thriving trade in nuclear technology, and the underground economic channels tha...
	www.muckraker.org (205 words)

	Review of 'Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She describes how numbers-crunching reporters have found school bus drivers with bad driving records, documented racial discrimination by banks, identified the biggest polluters and most dangerous roads and exposed incompetence, corruption and other problems in government.
		She writes about the resurgence of more aggressive reporting during the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, the founding of Investigative Reporters and Editors and that group’s massive inquiry into the 1976 assassination of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
		If the courts analysis had been done by a newsroom, the reporters probably would have addressed problems that TRAC skirted: the staleness of the data (most editors would roll their eyes at using 1987 data to grade a politician in 1989) and the lack of comment by federal court officials.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~jcsouth/resume/clips/cair.html (1199 words)

	Renaissance for investigative reporting
		Investigative journalism has a bright future on the internet and may act as the saviour of quality online news, according to a summit of US media professionals held last month.
		Focusing on the role of online investigative reporting, the conference recommended that newsrooms adopt continuous news-editing desks that can keep track of changing stories and that journalists must learn to work in teams 'to stay on top of a changing story'.
		Given the potential for online investigative reporting to attract an audience and create interest, news organisations need to give it adequate prominence: 'it should not be hidden among a dozen other links for stories of lesser impact'.
	www.journalism.co.uk /news/story42.html (666 words)

	Fund For Investigative Journalism Home Page
		Grants are limited to journalists seeking pre-publication help for investigative pieces involving corruption, malfeasance, incompetence and societal ills in general as well as for investigative media criticism.
		An annual grant for international investigative reporting has been established by the Fund in honor of Robert I. Friedman, a courageous and tireless journalist who died in 2002 at age fifty-one.
		Her report on Waziristan, "In the Hiding Zone," was published by the New Yorker magazine.
	fij.org (535 words)

	Journalism.org - Journalism Tools: Reporting - Watchdog Reporting - What Some Investigative Reporters Say (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a story about a pattern of widespread rape inside a Maryland jail, which she wrote while at the Washington Post, she uncovered crimes that were occurring literally under the nose of law officers - crimes widely known to the police and judges.
		Susan Kelleher of the Orange County Register in California, says she discusses at length with her sources beforehand everything that is involved in an investigative report.
		Michael Hiltzik, the investigative business reporter for the Los Angeles Times, says the single most important technique in his career is "get[ting] the documents." The rest of it is fine, he says, the confidential sources, secret meetings, "all the decor of investigative reporting you see in Hollywood.
	www.journalism.org /resources/tools/reporting/watchdog/pulitzer.asp?from=print (677 words)

	Power Reporting: contact Bill Dedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bill Dedman has led Power Reporting seminars on reporting and editing in dozens of newsrooms, and his Power Reporting Web site is used by many journalists for research.
		He was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press, and served for six years on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors.
		An example of his reporting work is a series of articles for The Boston Globe in January 2005 on fire department response times and staffing.
	powerreporting.com /contact.html (213 words)

	Investigative Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One possibility: Describe the daily reality of the full month's cycle from the day the welfare check comesuntil the end of the month when the remaining dollars are fewer and gone.
		Report on the attitudes, values and behaviors of the individuals in the family.
		Report their successes, report their failures, and report their ongoing struggle to end the daily misery for so many members of the human family as they attempt to reshape society so that allmay attain happiness, and not just the fortunate few.
	jour.csun.edu /schneider/invest.html (299 words)

	Journ. 132: Prof. Craig: Investigative Reporting Project
		The investigative reporting project counts for 20 percent of your course grade.
		The act of being a daily newspaper reporter involves first the quick gathering and confirming of facts and quotes, then the assembling of that information into a story that gives readers the essential elements of an event.
		It is often said that what separates investigative reporting from daily reporting is actual research as opposed to simple fact gathering.
	jmcweb.sjsu.edu /craig/132ivgative.html (799 words)

	Society of Professional Journalists - Investigative Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As it turned out, the entry had been placed in both categories, and it was selected as a winner for investigative reporting.
		But it is difficult, I argue, to publish or broadcast an investigative report that does not provide a service to the public.
		That’s when the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting went to the old Philadelphia Bulletin for an expose on how police officers were running a numbers racket out of the station house.
	www.spj.org /awards_sdx_gallery/01_invest.asp (478 words)

	investigative reporting syllabus
		Purpose: This will be a course in investigative reporting techniques and in-depth news writing and editing.
		Because the responsibilities of an investigative reporter are so great, journalism ethics will be discussed frequently.
		Stories will be graded for grammar, style and spelling, as well as on the enterprise and depth of the reporting.
	uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu /COJO/WILTSE/4100syl.htm (996 words)

	ICIJ - The Center for Public Integrity
		The ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting is the only one of its kind created specifically to honor transnational investigative reporting.
		The main criteria for eligibility is that the investigation - either a single work or a single-subject series - involves reporting in at least two countries on a topic of world significance.
		The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity, is a select group of investigative reporters around the globe who combine talents to provide in-depth information in a world where borders have become permeable even as foreign news bureaus have closed.
	www.publicintegrity.org /icij/award.aspx (220 words)

	Essay: Investigative Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Summary: Investigative reporting is necessary in order to protect and inform the public about corrupt practices by government and other institutions.
		This paper discusses the controversy surrounding investigative reporting techniques and discusses the dangers faced by the media with regard to lawsuits, offering several examples.
		It also identifies the benefits of investigative reporting and common arguments against its merits.
	www.essays-now.com /show_report.php?r_id=3647 (59 words)

	Society of Professional Journalists - Investigative Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Investigative stories are by definition difficult to do.
		With newspaper owners now demanding profit margins of 25 percent or more, investigative reporting is an obvious target for cuts.
		Two Ohio University professors studied three newspapers with a reputation for solid investigative reporting – the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – and discovered that each did far fewer investigative pieces in 1995 than they had done in 1980.
	www.spj.org /awards_sdx_gallery/02_invest.asp (353 words)

	Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: October 23, 2005 - October 29, 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He has told reporters over the last few years that he obtained the papers through a contact at the Niger Embassy in Rome (which, incidentally, was burglarized in 2001) with the help of another officer from Italian military intelligence, and that he sold them to a French intelligence agency with which he occasionally traded.
		Later in the Report, in a pretty telling illustration of how tied the Butler Report was to the needs of US politics, the authors went so far as to provide the president with a specific exoneration...
		In the British report, this week, the Committee of the British Parliament, which just spent 90 days investigating all of this, revalidated their British claim that Saddam was, in fact, trying to acquire uranium in Africa.
	www.talkingpointsmemo.com /archives/week_2005_10_23.php (12536 words)

	PBS : Trade Secrets : Program
		TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT is an investigation of the history of the chemical revolution and the companies that drove it – and how companies worked to withhold vital information about the risks from workers, the government, and the public.
		But the documentary also reports a much larger story – a never- before-told account of a campaign to limit the regulation of toxic chemicals and any liability for their effects.
		A report detailing Dan Ross' exposure to chemicals at the plant led his wife to believe that the company was withholding information.
	www.pbs.org /tradesecrets/program/program.html (267 words)

	Investigative Reporting
		In 1996, Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau opened a new investigation into CIA Scientist Frank Olson's 1953 "suicide," assigning the case to a special Cold Case Unit staffed by two veteran prosecutors.
		The reporter who coined the phrase "Freeway Killer," sets the record straight about why serial-killer Randy Kraft should not be confused with William Bonin.
		Maloney was an investigative reporter for the Kansas City Star during that period, and provided most of the newspaper's coverage of the Mafia.
	crimemagazine.com /investreport.htm (1570 words)

	Innocence Institute - Graduate study
		Students in Point Parkâs M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication program may focus their graduate studies on investigative reporting for the Innocence Institute.
		Practical reporting experience with heavy emphasis on investigative techniques, development of sources and writing of stories for publication.
		Under the professor's direction, the students will employ investigative reporting techniques to collect court records, police and other public documents, and all other appropriate materials; interview witnesses and visit crime scenes; prepare evidence for further exploration and corroboration; then begin writing reports, articles and series on the results of the investigation.
	www.pointpark.edu /default.aspx?id=1225 (379 words)

	MediaChannel.org - NEWS DISSECTOR \| Investigators Wanted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Investigative reporting used to be the sexiest part of the news business, and the most respected.
		Perhaps they know something that those of us of an earlier generation are just learning — that investigative reporting is not given the respect or resources it once enjoyed.
		It also disturbed me that a second panel, made up of reporters from TV and print in Britain, told a similarly depressing story about their fights to get support and airtime for investigations.
	www.mediachannel.org /views/dissector/rarebreed.shtml (1467 words)

	Some Thoughts On Investigative Reporting - Page 8 - Southern Gospel News Message Boards
		It's not investigative reporting, though, because the facts are being supplied from another source and re-printed.
		Another type of reporting is taking a very specific subject or topic and then gathering relatively obscure facts from several sources (perhaps including un-named sources) to develop a story.
		When asked by the attendees or by the "investigative" reporter, when an answer is given, it should be accepted.
	sogospelnews.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8150&page=8&pp=10 (1707 words)

	Some Thoughts On Investigative Reporting - Southern Gospel News Message Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The topic of investigative reporting in Southern Gospel has cropped up here as well as other forums including the blogs.
		But the problem is that when people cry "investigative reporting" they are really asking for, "Why exactly did insert name leave insert name Quartet?" And they want all the dirty details.
		Tabloid is not the same as investigative reporting, although investigative reporting can be turned into tabloid stories.
	sogospelnews.com /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=8150 (2785 words)

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