Investigative reporting: a study in technique
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| adam_text | Contents
List of illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Chapter
1
What is investigative reporting?
1
Establishing the facts
-
news: the hidden areas
-
general,
specialist and investigative reporting
-
fighting readers battles
-
what an investigative report needs
Chapter
2
The making of an investigative reporter
9
The qualities required
-
the path to investigation
-
back-up
from the management
-
specialists and investigative reporting
-
the freelance investigator
Chapter
3
Insight and the development of techniques
23
The Insight method
-
shaking up the quality press
-
helping
people
-
getting it right rather than simply on the front page
-
the switch to broadcasting:
-
into the
1990s
Chapter
4
Finding the stories
32
Contacts and tip-offs
-
a story to tell
-
windows on hidden
places
-
between the lines
-
a name remembered
-
does it
make sense?
-
a link with the past
-
one thing leads to another
Chapter
5
Pursuing inquiries: doing it right
41
The aim: to decide the issue
-
a possible subject: heroin in the
City
-
doing it right
-
bringing in the lawyers
-
notebooks and
tape-recordings
-
discovery of documents
-
the protection of
privilege
-
injunctions
-
in the public interest
Chapter
6
Pursuing inquiries: getting it right
50
Is there a story there?
-
standing up a story
-
facts from the
public domain
Chapter
7
Finding the people
57
Talk to everyone relevant
-
find some experts
-
access by
Internet
-
whistleblowers and axe-grinders
-
go and have a
look
-
what s the history?
Chapter
8
Dealing with documents
65
Fakes and hoaxes
-
checking for authenticity
-
how Peter
Watson made his checks
-
responses and spoiling tactics
-
rebuttals that don t rebut
Chapter
9
Getting people to talk
74
You need to be nice, have an introduction, or a favour to offer,
and be a good talker
-
don t be sharp and smarmy
-
the nine
Rs of interviewing
-
reaction and denial
-
information through
confrontation
-
going under cover
-
a smuggler unmasked
-
under cover in the Midlands
Chapter
10
Writing it: problems and pitfalls
93
Analysis of a court case
-
select facts fairly: let them speak for
themselves
-
don t beat about the bush
-
the case for
beginning at the beginning
-
libel: what can happen
-
the
set-up that backfired
-
contract and confidentiality
-
journalists sources
-
privacy and media codes
-
investigation
and its consequences
-
the
11
-plus failure who got a First
Chapter
11
Two classic investigations
107
Jonathan of Arabia
-
confrontation by correspondence
-
finding the history
-
trawling for information
-
the right
balance
-
the cancer of bent journalism
-
searching the
records
-
Kim Philby, masterspy
-
the trail from Cambridge
-
clash with the government
-
the American angle
-
the
Albanian disaster
Chapter
12
Looking into companies
The freelance director-general
-
what is on public record?
-
the directors report and accounts
-
how an exceptional item
became an intangible asset
-
where to find reports and
accounts
-
filed at the Stock Exchange
-
prospectuses
-
go
and see
-
other business organizations
-
the Polly Peck affair
-
companies and the government
-
the sale that never took place
-
not on public record
-
corrupt contracting
-
investigating
success
-
does this tip have an iceberg?
Chapter
13
The Maxwell investigations
Maxwell and The Sunday Times
-
Maxwell and Panorama
-
Maxwell versus Bower
Chapter
14
Social and consumer affairs
Poverty in Leeds
-
consumer complaints: Watchdog
-
are you
paying too much?
-
inquiring into the Health Service: child
casualties in Bristol
-
builders they wished they d never had
-
new houses
-
can chimneys stand the heat?
-
who to consult?
Chapter
15
Crime
Take care!
-
the solution of a murder
-
dealing with the
underworld
-
relations with the police
-
the
$40
million
fraudster
-
entrapment
-
Wayne s world
-
burglary
-
male rape
-
it could be you
Chapter
16
Trail of the bent coppers
The Iranian Scotch
-
malpractice in police forces
-
sexism in
the force
-
miscarriages of justice
-
the libel weapon
-
corruption in the Met
-
the top cop and the crook
-
the
Bridgewater Four
-
the Birmingham Six
-
The Chief must go
Chapter
17
Security and intelligence
The new anti-terrorist face of MI5
-
the bad old days
-
Bettaney and reform
-
oversight of the services
-
MI6
Chapter
18
Investigating local government
200
Clues that spell corruption
-
monitoring the councils
-
contacts
and information
-
keeping a source secret
-
the Kirkby ski
slope affair
-
scandal at the town hall
-
power that corrupts
Chapter
19
Sleaze
213
The cash-for-questions tangle
-
how the editor of The
Guardian met
Al
Fayed
-
The Sunday Times joins in
-
promise of proof
-
Hamilton and Greer sue for libel
-
the
aftermath
-
cash for access
Chapter
20
Cruelty and corruption abroad
224
Why abroad needs investigation
-
death in Matabeleland
-
using contacts
-
secret prison camps
-
hospital horrors
-
commission and corruption
-
international bodies
-
Eurofraud
Appendix A Books for further reading
237
Appendix
В
People who helped with this book
239
Appendix
С
Council information open to public view
243
Appendix
D
Press Complaints Commission
-
Code of Practice
247
Index
253
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Contents
List of illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Chapter
1
What is investigative reporting?
1
Establishing the facts
-
news: the hidden areas
-
general,
specialist and investigative reporting
-
fighting readers' battles
-
what an investigative report needs
Chapter
2
The making of an investigative reporter
9
The qualities required
-
the path to investigation
-
back-up
from the management
-
specialists and investigative reporting
-
the freelance investigator
Chapter
3
Insight and the development of techniques
23
The Insight method
-
shaking up the quality press
-
helping
people
-
getting it right rather than simply on the front page
-
the switch to broadcasting:
-
into the
1990s
Chapter
4
Finding the stories
32
Contacts and tip-offs
-
a story to tell
-
windows on hidden
places
-
between the lines
-
a name remembered
-
does it
make sense?
-
a link with the past
-
one thing leads to another
Chapter
5
Pursuing inquiries: doing it right
41
The aim: to decide the issue
-
a possible subject: heroin in the
City
-
doing it right
-
bringing in the lawyers
-
notebooks and
tape-recordings
-
discovery of documents
-
the protection of
privilege
-
injunctions
-
in the public interest
Chapter
6
Pursuing inquiries: getting it right
50
Is there a story there?
-
standing up a story
-
facts from the
public domain
Chapter
7
Finding the people
57
Talk to everyone relevant
-
find some experts
-
access by
Internet
-
whistleblowers and axe-grinders
-
go and have a
look
-
what's the history?
Chapter
8
Dealing with documents
65
Fakes and hoaxes
-
checking for authenticity
-
how Peter
Watson made his checks
-
responses and spoiling tactics
-
rebuttals that don't rebut
Chapter
9
Getting people to talk
74
You need to be nice, have an introduction, or a favour to offer,
and be a good talker
-
don't be sharp and smarmy
-
the nine
Rs of interviewing
-
reaction and denial
-
information through
confrontation
-
going under cover
-
a smuggler unmasked
-
under cover in the Midlands
Chapter
10
Writing it: problems and pitfalls
93
Analysis of a court case
-
select facts fairly: let them speak for
themselves
-
don't beat about the bush
-
the case for
beginning at the beginning
-
libel: what can happen
-
the
set-up that backfired
-
contract and confidentiality
-
journalists' sources
-
privacy and media codes
-
investigation
and its consequences
-
the
11
-plus 'failure' who got a First
Chapter
11
Two classic investigations
107
Jonathan of Arabia
-
confrontation by correspondence
-
finding the history
-
trawling for information
-
the right
balance
-
'the cancer of bent journalism'
-
searching the
records
-
Kim Philby, masterspy
-
the trail from Cambridge
-
clash with the government
-
the American angle
-
the
Albanian disaster
Chapter
12
Looking into companies
The freelance director-general
-
what is on public record?
-
the directors' report and accounts
-
how an exceptional item
became an intangible asset
-
where to find reports and
accounts
-
filed at the Stock Exchange
-
prospectuses
-
go
and see
-
other business organizations
-
the Polly Peck affair
-
companies and the government
-
the sale that never took place
-
not on public record
-
corrupt contracting
-
investigating
success
-
does this tip have an iceberg?
Chapter
13
The Maxwell investigations
Maxwell and The Sunday Times
-
Maxwell and Panorama
-
Maxwell versus Bower
Chapter
14
Social and consumer affairs
Poverty in Leeds
-
consumer complaints: Watchdog
-
are you
paying too much?
-
inquiring into the Health Service: child
casualties in Bristol
-
builders they wished they'd never had
-
new houses
-
can chimneys stand the heat?
-
who to consult?
Chapter
15
Crime
Take care!
-
the solution of a murder
-
dealing with the
underworld
-
relations with the police
-
the
$40
million
fraudster
-
entrapment
-
Wayne's world
-
burglary
-
male rape
-
it could be you
Chapter
16
Trail of the bent coppers
The Iranian Scotch
-
malpractice in police forces
-
sexism in
the force
-
miscarriages of justice
-
the libel weapon
-
corruption in the Met
-
the top cop and the crook
-
the
Bridgewater Four
-
the Birmingham Six
-
'The Chief must go'
Chapter
17
Security and intelligence
The new anti-terrorist face of MI5
-
the bad old days
-
Bettaney and reform
-
oversight of the services
-
MI6
Chapter
18
Investigating local government
200
Clues that spell corruption
-
monitoring the councils
-
contacts
and information
-
keeping a source secret
-
the Kirkby ski
slope affair
-
scandal at the town hall
-
power that corrupts
Chapter
19
Sleaze
213
The cash-for-questions tangle
-
how the editor of The
Guardian met
Al
Fayed
-
The Sunday Times joins in
-
promise of proof
-
Hamilton and Greer sue for libel
-
the
aftermath
-
cash for access
Chapter
20
Cruelty and corruption abroad
224
Why abroad needs investigation
-
death in Matabeleland
-
using contacts
-
secret prison camps
-
hospital horrors
-
commission and corruption
-
international bodies
-
Eurofraud
Appendix A Books for further reading
237
Appendix
В
People who helped with this book
239
Appendix
С
Council information open to public view
243
Appendix
D
Press Complaints Commission
-
Code of Practice
247
Index
253 |
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