BJ0025 – Investigative Reporting and Interviews

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                                                              ASSIGNMENT

Summer 2015

Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication– Semester 5

BJ0025 – Investigative Reporting and Interviews- 4 credits

(60 marks)

Please note that all questions carry 10 Marks each. 10 Mark questions should be answered in approximately 400 words.

Answer the following questions:

Q. 1- Write a long note on how to conduct investigative journalism, right from choosing the subject for investigation to researching, and organizing information. [10 Marks]

Answer:Generating good story ideas isn’t easy – in fact, the editorial focus group on this chapter, made up of regional journalists, said it was probably one of the hardest parts of a journalist’s job. So, here we’ll consider the various alternative ways of finding stories:

Your own experience: Very often, reporters complain “I don’t have enough evidence!” when they have been to the site of a story, spoken to role players and recorded detailed descriptions of what they saw. Yet all this is real, concrete evidence. In the same way, something that happens to you is no less valid as the starting-point for a story than something that happens to someone else.

Q. 2- How has investigative journalism had an effect on human rights and war coverage? Explain. [10 Marks]

Answer:Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Investigative journalism is a primary source of information. Most investigative journalism is conducted by newspapers, wire services, and freelance journalists. Practitioners sometimes use the term "accountability reporting".

Q. 3- Write a long note on investigative journalism in television. What is its regulatory framework? [10 Marks]

Answer:While journalists in the United States and European countries have led in formulation and adoption of these standards, such codes can be found in news reporting organizations in most countries with freedom of the press. The written codes and practical standards vary somewhat from country to country and organization to organization, but there

Q. 4- Describe some of the professional and ethical constraints of investigative journalism. [10 Marks]

Answer:Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Investigative journalism is a primary source of information. Most investigative journalism is conducted by newspapers, wire services, and freelance journalists. Practitioners sometimes use the term "accountability reporting".

An investigative reporter may make use of one or more of these tools, among others, on a single story:

·         Analysis of documents, such as lawsuits and other legal documents, tax records, government reports, regulatory reports, and corporate financial

Q. 5- How important are sources in investigative journalism? Discuss how credibility and confidentiality of sources is important in investigative journalism. [10 Marks]

Answer:Never forget that the usefulness of human sources depends not only on who they are, but also on your skill as a reporter in building a relationship of trust, asking good questions and recording answers with meticulous accuracy. Investigation is one type of reporting where – whether or not you can use it in court – you should record, and not simply note, your interactions with sources.

Your starting point – always – is listing the main role players in your story and planning how you will interview them. We’ll look in more detail at investigative

Q. 6- Write a long note on the Watergate scandal. [10 Marks]

Answer:The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis. The term Watergate has come to

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