Investigative journalism : context and practice / edited by Hugo de Burgh ; with Paul Bradshaw ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1 Context -- 1 Introduction: a higher kind of loyalty? -- 2 The emergence of investigative journalism -- 3 Thirty years of British investigative journalism -- 4 Some issues surrounding investigative journalism -- 5 Critical approaches to the media: the changing context for investigative journalism: -- 6 Globalising media agendas: the production of journalism -- 7 The English legal framework for investigative journalism -- 8 The regulatory and ethical framework for investigative journalism -- 9 Journalism and new technology -- PART 2 Practice -- 10 Investigating corporate corruption: an example from BBC's File on Four -- 11 Local power and public accountability: an example from the East Midlands -- 12 Scrutinising social policy: an example from Channel 4's Dispatches -- 13 Exposing miscarriages of justice: an example from BBC's Rough Justice -- 14 Gravedigging: the case of 'the Cossacks' -- 15 Pillaging the environmentalists: an example from The Cook Report -- 16 High politics and low behaviour: the Sunday Times Insight -- 17 Interfering with foreigners: an example from First Tuesday