1st Edition
Journalism, Power and Investigation Global and Activist Perspectives
Introduction: journalism, democracy and the critique of political culture
Stuart Price
PART I Investigative journalism, public integrity, and the state
Chapter One - Investigative journalism and terrorism: the proactive legal duty to report Richard Danbury
Chapter Two - Researching the Deep State: surveillance, politics, and dissent
Ben Harbisher
Chapter Three - State, Hierarchy and Executive Power: journalists under duress
Stuart Price
Chapter Four - Can you keep a secret? Legal and technological obstacles to protecting journalistic sources
Richard Danbury and Judith Townend
PART II Activism, investigation, and the quest for social justice
Chapter 5 - Citizens’ Investigations: recovering the past in contemporary Spain
Ruth Sanz Sabido
Chapter 6 - Global Witness and investigative journalism
Ali Hines
Chapter 7 - Violence and impunity in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas: citizens, smartphones and police malpractice
Fernanda Amaral
PART III The hazards of investigation: journalists on assignment
Chapter 8 - Surviving the Sectarian Divide: investigative journalism in the quagmire of Iraq Ahmed Bahiya
Chapter 9 - Co-operative International Coverage? The Ferret’s foreign reporting
Peter Geoghegan, Billy Briggs and Brindusa Ioana Nastasa
Chapter 10 - After the Arab Revolts: social media and the journalist in Egypt
Zahera Harb
Chapter 11 - Protecting the Colony: Bermuda’s national image and media censorship
Dana Selassie
PART IV An industry in turmoil: fake news, leaks, and economic challenges
Chapter 12 - Fact-checking, False Balance and ‘Fake News’: the discourse and practice of verification in political communication
Jen Birks
Chapter 13 - Wikileaks and Investigative Journalism: the organization’s effects and unfinished legacy
Lisa Lynch
Chapter 14 - Online news video, collaboration and social networks: the disruption of the media industry
David Hayward
Index
Biography
Stuart Price is Professor of Media and Political Discourse, and Director of the Media Discourse Centre at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of the forthcoming title Corbyn and the Media and several monographs, including Worst-Case Scenario? (2011), Brute Reality (2010), and Discourse Power Address (2007). He is the editor, with Ruth Sanz Sabido, of Sites of Protest (2016) and Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent (2015). His well-known textbooks include Communication Studies (1996).
