Investigative Journalism (3^rd Ed.)

This third edition maps the new world of investigative journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energised journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences for politics and business worldwide.

In this new edition, expert contributors demonstrate how crowdsourcing, big data, globalisation of information, and changes in media ownership and funding have escalated the impact of investigative journalists. The book includes case studies of investigative journalism from around the world, including the exposure of EU corruption, the destruction of the Malaysian environment, and investigations in China, Poland and Turkey. From Ibero-America to Nigeria, India to the Arab world, investigative journalists intensify their countries? evolution by inquisition and revelation.

This new edition reveals how investigative journalism has gone digital and global. Investigative Journalism is essential for all those intending to master global politics, international relations, media and justice in the 21st century.

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

HUGO de BURGH

PART I Context

Chapter One: Data journalism in a time of epic data leaks

HAMISH BOLAND-RUDDER & WILL FITZGIBBON

Chapter Two: National security

PAUL LASHMAR

Chapter Three: New models of funding and executing

GLENDA COOPER

Chapter Four: Digital sleuthing

FÉLIM MCMAHON

Chapter Five: Kill one and a dozen return

STEPHEN GREY

Chapter Six: Legal threats in the UK

SARAH KAVANAGH

Chapter Seven: Mission-driven journalism

RACHEL OLDROYD

Chapter Eight: Grassroots operations

RACHEL HAMADA

Part II Places

Chapter Nine: China and the digital era

WANG HAIYAN & FAN JICHEN

Chapter Ten: Syria: the war and before

SABA BEBAWI

Chapter Eleven: Survival in Turkey

SELIN BUCAK

Chapter Twelve: Poland since 1989

MAREK PALCZEWSKI

Chapter Thirteen: India’s paradox

PRASUN SONWALKAR

Chapter Fourteen: Malaysia: a case study in global corruption

CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN

Chapter Fifteen: Ten years in Nigeria

EMEKA UMEIJI & SULEIMAN A. SULEIMAN

Chapter Sixteen: The European Union and the rise of collaboration

BRIGITTE ALFTER

Chapter Seventeen: Ibero-America surveyed

MAGDALENA SALDAÑA & SILVIO WAISBORD

Chapter Eighteen: How the United Kingdom’s tabloids go about it

ROY GREENSLADE

Chapter Nineteen: The United Kingdom: reporting of the far-right

PAUL JACKSON

Chapter Twenty: The United Kingdom’s Private Eye: the ‘club’ the powerful fear

PATRICK WARD

Afterword: A manifesto for investigative journalism in the 21st century

PAUL LASHMAR

Index

Hugo de Burgh is Professor of Journalism at the University of Westminster, where he set up the China Media Centre in 2005. He is also Professor in the School of Media & Communications at Tsinghua University. Previously he worked for Scottish Television, the BBC and (the UK’s) Channel 4. Recent books include China’s Media Go Global (2018, with Daya Thussu and Shi Anbin) and China’s Media in the Emerging World Order, Second Edition (2020). Previous publications include Investigative Journalism (three editions); Democracy in England: Possible & Necessary; The Chinese Journalist; Making Journalists; China, Friend or Foe?; China’s Environment and Chinese Environment Journalists; China and Britain: The Potential Impact of China’s Development; Facing Western Media 应 对西方媒体; The West You Really Don’t Know 你所不了解的西方故事 and Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a Changing World.

Paul Lashmar is Head of the Department of Journalism at City University of London as well as Reader in the Department of Journalism. He has written extensively about the world of intelligence agencies for four decades. His research interests include investigative journalism, intelligence–media relations and organised crime. Lashmar has been an investigative journalist in television and print and on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. Books authored or co-authored by him include Online Journalism: The Essential Guide (2014, with Steve Hill). Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate was published in September 2020.