Investigative Journalism in Changing Times

Australian and Anglo-American Reporting

Caryn Coatney, Caryn Coatney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000817867
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Estudios de medios

This book offers new insights into the crucial role of investigative journalism at a pivotal time of technological changes and upheavals. It surveys innovations and unexpected impacts of the field, from past and present challenges and what may be in store for the future of the industry.

The book begins by exploring the increasingly investigative innovations in political and independent reporting, along with a comparison of the rhetoric and reality of a so-called golden era of investigative journalism in the past and the present. It goes on to analyse the growth of creative and sports investigative reporting, as well as the ability of contemporary conflict journalism to overcome surmounting challenges. It also examines the capacity of groundbreaking investigations, including data reporting, to expose injustices involving women, indigenous communities and other minorities. In interviews with key industry and research professionals, this book presents the reactions of four media experts to the crises faced by investigative journalism in a digital environment of escalating disinformation, legal restrictions and popular interest in the news. The book concludes by reflecting on previous and current challenges and offers insights into the prospect for investigative journalism of the future.

Presenting unique views on the diversity, resilience and transformative power of investigative journalism, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of journalism, communication, media and politics, as well as professionals already operating within the field of journalism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A golden age?: Myths and meaning
• 3 Global collaborative investigative journalism: George Seldes and the mid-twentieth century antecedents of the Panama Papers practices
• 4 Investigative journalism: A system of creativity
• 5 Reckoning with investigative journalism and Indigenous news in Australia
• 6 Investigative journalism in sport
• 7 Citizen+Journalist
• 8 Investigative journalism and the new ‘public interest’ defence to defamation
• 9 Data investigations: A humanitarian turn
• 10 From Watergate to Trump world — the declining power of scandals
• 11 Conversations with Danielle Cronin, Philip Howard and Julian Thomas
• 12 Afterword
• Index