Tag Archives: investigative journalism

Bernstein: no golden age of journalism

By Julie Starr | Published: August 21, 2010
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Using the Official Information Act

By Julie Starr | Published: April 18, 2009
The good folks at TVNZ Media7 have kindly shared this cheery video tutorial on what the Official Information Act allows and how to use it.
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Who pays for investigative journalism?

By Julie Starr | Published: April 6, 2009
The Huffington Post recently announced a US$1.75million fund to support investigative journalism in the US.
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Wikileaks – the home of leaked documents

By Julie Starr | Published: August 4, 2008
Back on the investigative journalism theme, this Editors Weblog post (based on a stronger Wired story) looks at Wikileaks, the document-leaking website set up to "help journalists change the world" according to its founder Julian Assange. Wikileaks has been responsible for the leaking of several major news stories: the U.S. military's operating manuals for its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay; lists of U.S. munitions in Iraq; reports of the looting of Kenya by former president Daniel Arap Moi.
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Washington Post’s top 10 investigative stories

By Julie Starr | Published: August 4, 2008
I've lost track of how many times I've heard people bemoan the lack of investigative journalism these days. I think there's still quite a bit about, albeit appearing more in specialist magazines and non-fiction paperbacks than in daily newspapers. But the genre is not entirely dead even there. This post from Editors Weblog lists the top 10 investigative stories chosen by the Washington Post for the last year.
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