The authority on investigative reporting. The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook is the embodiment of IRE’s highly respected approach to training and supporting investigative reporters and editors. Updated by IRE’s Executive Director Brant Houston and grounded in the collective experience of IRE’s members, this is the bestselling book on investigative reporting.
Explains the fundamentals of investigative reporting. To build on students’ news reporting and writing skills, Part I provides instruction on gathering sources, analyzing databases and documents, interviewing, writing the investigative story, and being ethical.
Helps students investigate the widest range of topics — from federal and city governments to financial institutions and non-profits. Based on IRE’s "Tipsheets," each topic chapter offers detailed information and covers enduring questions surrounding the institution or issue, avenues of investigation, and the best resources, documents, and databases.
Useful as a textbook and reference, with instruction and resources that will serve journalists at every stage of their education and career. After introducing students to the specific skills they need to be successful investigative reporters, the topic chapters can then serve as assignments in the classroom or primers in the newsroom.