Journalism, power, and investigation : global and activist perspectives / Stuart Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Price, Stuart, 1958- editor.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investigative reporting.

Physical Description:

xv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"Journalism, Power, and Investigation presents a contemporary, trans-national analysis of investigative journalism. Beginning with a detailed introduction that examines the relationship between this form of public communication and normative conceptions of democracy, the book offers a selection of spirited contributions to current debates concerning the place, function and political impact of investigative work. The fourteen chapters, produced by practicing journalists, academics, and activists, cover a range of topics, with examples drawn from the global struggle to produce reliable, in-depth accounts of public events. The collection brings together a range of significant, present-day investigations from across the world. These include an assignment conducted in the dangerous sectarian environment of Iraq, a close engagement with Spain's Memory Movement and the work of radical charity Global Witness. Chapters also examine the troubled political legacy of Wikileaks, legal constraints on investigative journalism in the UK and the bold international agenda of the investigative collective the Ferret. This is alongside other analytical pieces on events in Bermuda, Brazil, and Egypt. Investigative journalism is a form of reportage that has long provided a benchmark for in-depth, critical interventions. Along with case studies, Journalism, Power and Investigation gives students and researchers an insight into the principles and methods that animate this global search for truth and justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: journalism, democracy and the critique of political culture / Stuart Price

Investigative journalism and terrorism: the proactive legal duty to report / Richard Danbury

Researching the deep state: surveillance, politics, and dissent / Ben Harbisher

State, hierarchy and executive power: journalists under duress / Stuart Price

Can you keep a secret? legal and technological obstacles to protecting journalistic sources / Richard Danbury and Judith Townend

Overview

Citizens' investigations: recovering the past in contemporary Spain / Ruth Sanz Sabido

Global witness and investigative journalism / Ali Hines

Violence and impunity in Rio de Janeiro's favelas: citizens, smartphones and police malpractice / Fernanda Amaral

Surviving the sectarian divide: investigative journalism in the quagmire of Iraq / Ahmed Bahiya

Co-operative international coverage: the Ferret's foreign reporting / Peter Geoghegan, Billy Briggs and Brindusa Ioana Nastasa

After the Arab revolts: social media and the journalist in Egypt / Zahera Harb Birks

Protecting the colony: Bermuda's national image and media censorship / Dana Selassie

Fact-checking, false balance and "fake news": the discourse and practice of verification in political communication / Jen Birks

Wikileaks and investigative journalism: the organization's effects and unfinished legacy / Lisa Lynch

Online news video, collaboration and social networks: the disruption of the media industry / David Hayward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781138743069

1138743062

9781138743090

1138743097

OCLC:

1079413038