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Print Price: $189.99

Format:
Paperback
400 pp.
190 mm x 245 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195518337

Copyright Year:
2014

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand


Journalism Research and Investigation in a Digital World

Stephen Tanner and Nick Richardson

Journalism Research and Investigation in a Digital World has been designed to help students of journalism, on how to conduct complex investigations.

It used to be that journalists made their job by asking people questions and writing down their answers to become the basis of tomorrow's stories. Increasingly, journalists need to interrogate data, to find out what matches, what doesn't fit, where the document trail leads. And then, most importantly, to make sense of the information itself. Data without context is useless: context without information is just background. Journalists need both to help media consumers understand what is going on.

This book reveals the range of tools available to journalists that will enable them to locate data and make sense of it. It highlights numerous case studies and shows how data can be built into a story. It is, essentially, a book about developing journalism research skills that can be applied broadly.

Readership : Suitable for journalism students studying an Investigative Journalism and/or Journalism Research subject as part of their undergraduate degree.

Part 1: context
Introduction
1. Historical background
2. Lessons from abroad (1) - partnerships
3. Lessons from abroad (2) - Wikileaks
4. The whistleblower in the digital age
Part 2: Approaches and tools
5. The process
6. Research methods
7. Social media as a research tool
8. Maths and stats for journalists
9. Data journalism (1)
10. Data journalism (2)
11. Interpreting financial documents
12. PR strategies and journalism
13. Legal issues
14. Ethical issues
15. Publishing your work
Part 3: Applied investigations
16. Political journalism
17. Crime
18. The Environment
19. Health
20. Science
21. Indigenous affairs
22. Multiculturalism
23. Business
24. Industrial relations
25. Sport

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Stephen Tanner is Professor of Journalism at the University of Wollongong. He has previously worked as a journalist and government media adviser. Stephen is an active researcher, having published widely on a range of topics, including media ethics, politics and teaching practice. He is currently lead researcher on an OLT grant looking at employer attitudes towards the qualifications of journalism graduates. Nick Richardson has been a journalist for 30 years. He has worked on newspapers and magazines in the UK and Australia, including The (Melbourne) Herald, The Australian and The Bulletin. He was an associate editor of The Herald Sun and a weekly columnist. He is Adjunct Professor of Journalism at LaTrobe University in Melbourne and editorial training manager for News Ltd's Victorian titles.

Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
News as it Happens - Stephen Lamble
Feature Writing - Stephen Tanner, Molly Kasinger and Nick Richardson

Special Features

  • Recognises that journalists need to develop skills that will enable them to work across a range of media platforms, while adapting to the new technology that will help them locate, interpret and package information in a faster way.
  • Designed to allow readers to pick and choose the chapters and case studies to suit their immediate needs.
  • The various contributions can be read in isolation, or they can be coupled with other chapters and case studies to provide readers with the skills they require to tackle similar tasks themselves
  • Includes practical case studies written by a range of journalists in the field documenting how they tackled a particular story.
  • Highlights international and local examples, including Wikileaks and investigative social journalism and the Arab Spring .
  • Includes a whole part on applied investigations including political reporting, crime, health, business and many other areas.