Investigative Journalism

Hugo de Burgh is Professor of Journalism at the University of Westminster, where he set up the China Media Centre in 2005. He is also Professor in the School of Media & Communications at Tsinghua University. Previously he worked for Scottish Television, the BBC and (the UK’s) Channel 4. Recent books include China’s Media Go Global (2018, with Daya Thussu and Shi Anbin) and China’s Media in the Emerging World Order, Second Edition (2020). Previous publications include Investigative Journalism (three editions); Democracy in England: Possible & Necessary; The Chinese Journalist; Making Journalists; China, Friend or Foe?; China’s Environment and Chinese Environment Journalists; China and Britain: The Potential Impact of China’s Development; Facing Western Media 应 对西方媒体; The West You Really Don’t Know 你所不了解的西方故事 and Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a Changing World.Paul Lashmar is Head of the Department of Journalism at City University of London as well as Reader in the Department of Journalism. He has written extensively about the world of intelligence agencies for four decades. His research interests include investigative journalism, intelligence–media relations and organised crime. Lashmar has been an investigative journalist in television and print and on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. Books authored or co-authored by him include Online Journalism: The Essential Guide (2014, with Steve Hill). Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate was published in September 2020.

This 3rd edition of Investigative Journalism confronts a profoundly changed media landscape. Reports of the death of investigative journalism as watchdog and custodian of conscience are way premature, as this book reveals. Essential. - Dominic Ziegler, The EconomistInvestigative journalism makes crucial contributions to the development of society and the improvement of institutions all over the world. This 3rd edition of Investigative Journalism is a much-needed guide to investigative journalism in a new era of global uncertainty and upheaval - Zhang Lifen, Professor of Journalism, Fudan UniversityThis new edition, rich with case studies and best practice, illustrates a fresh encouraging wave of investigative journalism around the globe. Essential reading for students, academics and journalists who believe in holding the powerful to account. -Richard Sambrook, Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University and Former Director, BBC NewsInvestigative journalism is seeing a huge transformation and this book tells you about the most important developments – from the growing power of international collaboration over the new importance of open source investigations to the emerging role played by NGOs. It turns an eye not only to the countries of the English-speaking world but also to Asia, Africa and Latin America. - Hans-Martin Tillack, SternThis book tracks the emergence of new tools and techniques for holding power to account and describes emerging models for cross-border collaboration and protection. The journalism of exposure can no longer be confined to nation-states. It has also become even more urgent and necessary.- Sheila S. Coronel, Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University

• Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction HUGO de BURGHPART I ContextChapter One: Data journalism in a time of epic data leaks HAMISH BOLAND-RUDDER & WILL FITZGIBBONChapter Two: National security PAUL LASHMAR Chapter Three: New models of funding and executing GLENDA COOPERChapter Four: Digital sleuthingFÉLIM MCMAHONChapter Five: Kill one and a dozen return STEPHEN GREYChapter Six: Legal threats in the UK SARAH KAVANAGHChapter Seven: Mission-driven journalism RACHEL OLDROYD Chapter Eight: Grassroots operationsRACHEL HAMADA Part II PlacesChapter Nine: China and the digital era WANG HAIYAN & FAN JICHENChapter Ten: Syria: the war and before SABA BEBAWIChapter Eleven: Survival in Turkey SELIN BUCAKChapter Twelve: Poland since 1989 MAREK PALCZEWSKIChapter Thirteen: India’s paradox PRASUN SONWALKARChapter Fourteen: Malaysia: a case study in global corruptionCLARE REWCASTLE BROWN Chapter Fifteen: Ten years in Nigeria EMEKA UMEIJI & SULEIMAN A. SULEIMANChapter Sixteen: The European Union and the rise of collaboration BRIGITTE ALFTERChapter Seventeen: Ibero-America surveyed MAGDALENA SALDAÑA & SILVIO WAISBORDChapter Eighteen: How the United Kingdom’s tabloids go about itROY GREENSLADEChapter Nineteen: The United Kingdom: reporting of the far-right PAUL JACKSONChapter Twenty: The United Kingdom’s Private Eye: the ‘club’ the powerful fear PATRICK WARDAfterword: A manifesto for investigative journalism in the 21st century PAUL LASHMARIndex