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CHAPTER 1 DEFINING INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING What makes it different from other types of journalism? INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING has many, sometimes widely divergent, meanings. To understand what INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING is, it may be best to start by explaining what it is not. It is said that all REPORTING is INVESTIGATIVE . After all, journalists routinely dig for facts. They ask questions. They get information. They investigate. But is this really the case? In the day-to-day practice of journalism, how deep do reporters really dig? How probing are their questions? And how complete or original is the information that they present? If reporters attend a press conference and then write about it, they cannot be said to be doing INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING . If they interview those wounded in a police operation and then report what they have been told, that is not INVESTIGATIVE journalism either. The reality is that daily news coverage is usually not probing or INVESTIGATIVE .
unearth more facts and to provide something new and previously unknown. ... wrong, who is responsible, how the wrongdoing was done and its consequences. The best investigative reports expose not just individual, but systemic, failures. They ... what may be legal and above-board but nonetheless causes harm. For example, the Pulitzer-Prize ...
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