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How RTI changed the face of investigative journalism in India, forever. The RTI Act has helped investigative journalism in getting information that otherwise would have been almost impossible to unearth despite legal provisions. Using the storyline approach, the author, through his own experiences, unravels how news was collected through persistent efforts using RTI, how the stories evolved, and how the subject was followed up keeping an eye on the rightful impact. Hence the emphasis is less on theory and more on practical aspects, making the book 'a story behind India's biggest news stories'.

Investigative reporting --- Freedom of information --- Press and politics --- Government information

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Reporters and reporting --- Investigative reporting --- Journalists --- Editors --- Newspaper editors --- Journalistiek. --- Onderzoek. --- Reportage --- Journalisme d'enquête --- Journalistes --- Editors. --- Investigative reporting. --- Journalists. --- Newspaper editors. --- Reporters and reporting. --- Newspaper reporting --- Columnists --- Commentators --- Reporting, Investigative --- Journalism --- Newspapers --- Authors --- Persons --- Éditeurs --- Rédacteurs en chef

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In democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and private institutions accountable to the public. From firings and resignations to changes in budgets and laws, the impact of this reporting can be significant-but so too are the costs. As newspapers confront shrinking subscriptions and advertising revenue, who is footing the bill for journalists to carry out their essential work? Democracy's Detectives puts investigative journalism under a magnifying glass to clarify the challenges and opportunities facing news organizations today. Drawing on a painstakingly assembled data set of thousands of investigations by U.S. journalists, James T. Hamilton deploys economic theories of markets and incentives to reach conclusions about the types of investigative stories that get prioritized and funded. Hamilton chronicles a remarkable record of investigative journalism's real-world impact, showing how a single dollar invested in a story can generate hundreds of dollars in social benefits. An in-depth case study of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Pat Stith of The News and Observer in Raleigh, NC, who pursued over 150 investigations that led to the passage of dozens of state laws, illustrates the wide-ranging impact one intrepid journalist can have. Important stories are going untold as news outlets increasingly shy away from the expense of watchdog reporting, Hamilton warns, but technology may hold an answer. Computational journalism-making novel use of digital records and data-mining algorithms-promises to lower the costs of discovering stories and increase demand among readers.

Investigative reporting --- Press --- Journalism --- Government and the press --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Media, News --- Media, The --- News media --- Newspapers --- Periodicals --- Reporting, Investigative --- Reporters and reporting --- Economic aspects --- Influence --- Data processing --- E-books --- Influence. --- Data processing.

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Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and other working and poor people in an attempt to gain a fuller and more authentic understanding of the lives of the working class and the poor. In this first, sweeping study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America, award-winning historian Mark Pittenger examines how intellectuals were shaped by their experiences with the poor, and how despite their sympathy toward working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and "other" American underclass. While contributing to our understanding of the history of American social thought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions.

Poverty --- Working class --- Social classes --- Investigative reporting --- Social classes in mass media. --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Mass media --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Reporting, Investigative --- Reporters and reporting --- History

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In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that undercover work is not a separate world, but rather it embodies a central discipline of good reportingâ€"the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public’s attention. Together with a companion website that gathers some of the best investigative work of the past century, Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor.

Journalistic ethics --- Journalism --- Reporters and reporting --- Investigative reporting --- Reporting, Investigative --- Newspaper reporting --- Newspapers --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Professional ethics --- History. --- Social aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Journalisme d'enquête --- Reporters et reportage --- Presse --- Journalistes --- Aspect social --- Déontologie