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Investigative Journalism

Investigative Journalism

Swain, Jayant Kumar

Paperback

Writing InstructionGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1645608662
ISBN13: 9781645608660
Publisher: Black Eagle Books
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The book has been divided into ten useful chapters. The first chapter deals with a general introduction to fundamentals of investigative journalism where efforts have been made to help people understand the significance of investigative journalism in society and distinguish between the routine and investigative journalism. The second chapter titled with Investigative Reporting in Indian Context provides a detail account of investigative reports in pre and post independence along with a checklist for investigation in financial matters of national importance. The third section is devoted to various stages of investigative reporting. The fourth section deals with the strategies for overcoming problems in developing story idea and the usefulness of hypothesis. Planning is an important stage of investigative reporting for which efforts have been made in the fifth chapter of this book to explain how to make strategies for time, budget, and methodology planning. The sixth chapter of this textbook is on data security that speaks a volume about how journalists will protect their data from unauthorized access, theft, modification and mis-utilization by making it hard, lengthy and expensive. The contents of chapter seven is on the protection of human sources. The chapter eight explains the techniques of interviews which are of practical utility for every type of reporting. The target audience of this textbook after going through the contents presented in the chapter nine that is on story writing for print and broadcast media will develop confidence and learn techniques to write the story. The ethics of investigative journalism happens to be the last chapter which is not only important for investigative reporting but also for all types of reporting.

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