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Spotlight’s Walter V. Robinson and the Newcastle Herald’s Chad Watson on covering clergy abuse - and the threats that followed.
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In this episode, we hear from Walter V. Robinson on how the Boston Globe Spotlight investigation into clergy abuse began, and from the Newcastle Herald's Chad Watson on how his paper covered abuse.
Fairfax Media has a long and highly successful history in investigative journalism, which may be at risk if the company merges with the Nine Network.
Without credible news and information, a healthy democracy is not possible.
The sustainability of the news media is a precondition for good journalism in the public interest. Thus, economic questions should form part of discussions of press freedom.
South African investigative journalists and civil society played a crucial role in bringing a country in the clutches of patronage networks back from the brink.
Established media organisations are collaborating across borders and with new media to break big stories such as global tax avoidance by the rich and powerful.
A good news story about the news? It's true. In British Columbia, a digital news ecology is flowering through ‘coopetition’ – as Media Democracy Day will soon showcase.
South Africa's perilous decline under Jacob Zuma's presidency is set out in two non-fiction books that provide unsettling, but essential reading.
Canadian newspapers are in trouble, and there are no philanthropic efforts afoot to rescue them. The National Student Investigative Reporting Network, or NSIRN, is aiming to make a difference.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been killed in Malta – but we must accept that corruption is a problem for all of Europe.
There are reasons to channel Harvey aid through the nonprofit despite evidence that it wasted money following Haiti's earthquake and fumbled Superstorm Sandy relief efforts.
Imagine, for a moment, if there were no independent journalists left to decipher PR spin.
Big cash infusions can give nonprofit journalism a much-needed boost. But the ailing news industry needs more consistent funding.
From a social media post that cracked open a decades-old abuse scandal in the UK and Australia, through to tracking asylum seekers, social media can be vital in breaking investigative news stories.
Journalists call it the 'dark arts', and public relations is more powerful than ever.
Despite its negative aspects, investigative journalists globally are using social media to collaborate and uncover important stories.
The Daily Telegraph used hidden cameras to capture the England manager in an apparent impropriety ... and it cost him his job.
Some of the key questions faced by news organisations before publishing their scoop.
A global collaboration of journalists has revealed massive offshoring of funds linked to some of the world's most powerful people, including Vladimir Putin.
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Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Incoming Associate Professor at LaTrobe University. Former Lecturer, Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences; Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Sussex
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Professor, School of Communication; Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Literary & Narrative Journalism, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW
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Professor of Journalism, Boston University
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Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town
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Fisher Designated Professor of Accounting and Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems (MIS), The Ohio State University
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Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology
