Sports journalism has sometimes been called the ‘toy department,’ since it was known for less serious reporting. But the sports page has an opportunity to take on a real watchdog role.
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Amid news that 500 jobs will go at the Whyalla steelworks, once owned by Gupta’s GFG Alliance, The Big Steal is a powerful – and timely – work of journalism.
Underground reporters could be among the last bulwarks against unchecked power.
Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister Liliana was killed by a jealous ex-boyfriend at the age of 20. Her book about this crime is both deeply personal and driven by a wider political purpose.
Current affairs TV began over 60 years ago in New Zealand. The end of the long-form format leaves local journalism greatly diminished.
The natural gas industry has spent years trying to undermine scientific findings about gas stoves and health. If this sounds familiar, that’s no accident.
The justice ministry had more than enough time to make the law constitutional. Failure to do so is an indictment on its leadership in the process.
Two books by Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters about their reporting on Ben Roberts-Smith shed light on money, power, myth-making and the importance of investigative journalism.
A Scottish parliamentary committee is investigating whether the nation’s laws to protect journalistic freedoms need to be tightened.
South Africans are actively challenging the criminalisation of the state. Many of the revelations about fraud, corruption and nepotism come from principled whistle-blowers within the state.
Journalists and whistleblowers are being targeted by expensive lawsuits to stop them working.
The Constitutional Court judgment is a huge victory, not only for journalists and lawyers who stand to benefit directly and immediately, but for broader society.
Journalists need to have the facts to support not just what they say explicitly, but what their work implies.
A new generation of investigative journalists is revealing the depth of corruption in Russian public life.
In 1967 a Mexican reporter told the CIA he had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City just before the JFK assassination. New research and recently declassified intelligence pokes a hole in his story.
Media self-criticism is not just important to improve journalism, it is a political, professional and moral imperative.
The magazine grew to be the largest circulation publication for black readers in South Africa, and expanded to include East and West African editions.
Despite media companies’ revenue declining in recent years, a nine-year study reveals that the greatly feared death of investigative journalism has not occurred.
Western aid has resulted in an Anglo-American culture of journalism education which has proved impractical to implement in African countries with illiberal political regimes.
An American media scholar studying in Australia looks at the protections offered by the two countries for investigative reporting, raising crucial questions about journalism’s role in democracy.
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Boston University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary & Narrative Journalism, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW
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Investigative Reporting Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Reader in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Adjunct professor, School of Communications, Simon Fraser University
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Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon
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Journalist, author, broadcaster, Queensland University of Technology