The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques - Softcover

Houston, Brant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312442653 ISBN 13: 9780312442651

Verlag: Bedford/st Martins, 2008

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Published with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE), The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook is the best-selling classroom and newsroom classic. Useful as a textbook in advanced journalism courses and as a reference for professional journalists, this book shows students how to use fundamental news reporting and writing skills like gathering sources, tracking information, and interviewing to pursue investigative stories in a variety of beats — from the government and education to healthcare, the environment and real estate. In addition to discussing the latest techniques and challenges in the profession, the fifth edition is now thoroughly streamlined, making it easier to locate the resources that investigative reporters need to get the story.

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BRANT HOUSTON is Executive Director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. and the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting and served as associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism for twelve years. He currently serves as the Knight Chair in Investigative & Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he teaches investigative reporting. He was database editor at the Hartford Courant and an investigative reporter at the Kansas City Star. Houston is also a co-author of Computer-Assisted Reporting (Bedford St. Martin’s, 2004), now in its third edition.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bedford/st Martins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312442653
• ISBN 13: 9780312442651
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 554
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