Earlier this year I was asked to write a chapter for a book on the future of investigative journalism – ‘Investigative Journalism: Dead Or Alive?‘. I’m reproducing it here. The chapter was originally published on my Facebook page. An open event around the book’s launch, with a panel discussion, is being held at the Frontline Club next month. We may
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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YeYn--rnIY] Last week Channel 4 and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism “raised questions” over the election campaign expenses of Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, specifically the practice of claiming partial expenses on the grounds that ‘not all material was used’. The response from Goldsmith and the Conservative Party seemed to argue that this was standard practice. “The examples raised could be
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More questions from a student that I’m publishing as part of the FAQ section: 1. If News Corp starts charging for news stories, do you think readers would pay or they would just go to different newspapers? Both, but mostly the latter. Previous experiments with paywalls saw audiences drop between 60 and 97%. And you also have to figure in that
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These days any journalist job ad is news, but this one is particularly worth blogging about. The recently formed Investigations Fund has in turn launched the Bureau of Investigative Journalism with a £2million grant from the David and Elaine Potter Foundation, and they’re looking for a Managing Editor. Here’s the PDF of the job ad. The closing date is actually
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