If you are to be successful as an investigative journalist, you need to have highly reliable sources. This is because your success as an investigative journalist, more often than not, depends on the extent to which you can lay your hands on confidential information of a controversial nature. And more often than not, you need […]
Four Things That Often Drive People to Develop a Real Passion for Investigative Journalism
I have come to the conclusion that there are four things that normally drive people to develop a real passion for investigative journalism. Firstly, there are people who are driven to develop a real passion for investigative journalism by personal experiences: like, for instance, after being victims of various injustices. A certain gentleman told me […]
Financing Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism costs a lot of money. Media houses therefore often face huge challenges, when trying to figure out how to finance investigative journalism. There are media houses that finance investigative journalism using their advertising revenues. They do so knowing that investigative journalism reports are likely to draw huge audiences, which are in turn likely […]