Investigative Reporter's Handbook
A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques
6th Edition
Published on 1. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-319-10284-5 (ISBN)
Description
Build the fundamental investigative writing and reporting skills you need to investigate anything and anyone. The text's easy-to-use handbook style allows readers to quickly access any information--everything from how to build quality reporting skills and collaborate on investigations to tips for researching a variety of beats. This is the text on investigative reporting, infused with illustrative quotes and instructive examples from highly-respected journalists around the world.
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Edition
6th ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-319-10284-5 (9781319102845)
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Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative & Enterprise Reporting at the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism for 10 years. The author of three editions of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide, Houston served as managing director of the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting for three years after working in daily journalism for 17 years. He was an award-winning investigative reporter at The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, The Kansas City Star and several news organizations in the Boston area.
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed in 1975 to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques and news sources.