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The Fourth Emergency Service
Investigative Journalism
A recent YouGov survey revealed that a
significant proportion of the public did
not understand what investigative
journalism entailed. They said: “The public
doesn’t really know what investigative
journalism is but they know a good scoop
when they see one.”
Aspects
Moral
Confidential
Protects society from corruption
Reveals wrongdoing
Protects the weak or vulnerable
Tells the truth
Legal espionage
Uses similar tactics to spies – but no
longer hacks into phones – not a
News of the World type of operation any
more.
Mulcaire
Glenn Michael Mulcaire (born 8 September 1970)[1][2] is an English private investigator and former non-league footballer.
Mulcaire was closely linked to the News International phone hacking scandal. In January 2007 he was found guilty of illegally intercepting phone messages from Clarence House and imprisoned for six months after having pleaded guilty; his co-conspirator News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman was sentenced to four months.[3]
Mulcaire
Renewed controversy over the phone hacking scandal led to the closure of the News of the Worldin July 2011.[4] He publicly apologized to those affected by his activities.[5] As of August 2012, the Met, using documents obtained from raiding Mulcaire's office, had identified 4,744 potential victims of phone hacking by News of the World.[6]
Since police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 formally charged with crimes, including Mulcaire, in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information.
So how can we?
How can a journalist get a scoop about
government corruption – for example?
It is done by whistleblowers who do not
trust the police or perhaps social
services.
It is another way to get to the truth.
They may pass documents.
Does not stand up
A story does not stand up if there is no
specific evidence – just a rumour or
conspiracy theory.
So for example – if someone says that a
care home is maltreating its elderly
residents, the journalist could not take
that as being a story that stand’s up. They
would get a camera or microphone into
the home and record malpractice.
Risky but moral
The reporter would get a job as staff and
take many days or even weeks to work
there until they found who was being
cruel to the elderly folk.
Then tell CQC to inspect and
simultaneously reveal the malpractice in
the newspapers.
They might also tell the police.
Good relations with police
Good investigative journalists have a first
class relationship with police.
Police ask them to help out to get the
answers to puzzles that need to be
resolved before the police have enough
evidence to charge the guilty.
Top Ten – in 2012
1 – Nick Davies (The Guardian)
“Not only for his work on phone-hacking but for, more generally, giving investigative journalism a good name. His work repudiates the popular view that investigative journalists are interested only in celebrities and gossip.”
2 – Claire Newell (The Daily Telegraph)
“Her work exposing FIFA for Insight in particular was top drawer”
3 – David Leigh (The Guardian)
“He’s been performing at a high level for a long time and he hasn’t lost any of his appetite”
Top Ten
4 – Jonathan Calvert (The Sunday Times)
“His scoops are endless, and he effects enormous changes in public behaviour through his exposure of scandals”
5 – Heather Brooke (Freelance)
“Worked well [in the] fight in the High Court in 2008 to force the release of the MPs’ expenses details”
6 – David Rose (Mail on Sunday)
“Brilliant and dedicated, exposing miscarriages of justice, frauds in the climate change lobby, middle east politicking etc.”
Top Ten
7 – Paul Lewis (The Guardian)
“One of the best proponents of data journalism... has had some great scoops, from Police undercover officers having affairs (and children) on their missions, to revealing how Ian Tomlinson really died”
8 – Mazher Mahmood (The Sunday Times)
“Brilliant scoops and stings, whatever one’s slight feelings about the occasional entrapment”
Top Ten
9 –Andrew Norfolk (The Times)
“For his heroic work in pursuing the story of on street sex grooming and trafficking in Northern cities”
10 – Stephen Grey (Thomson Reuters)
“One of his major coups was to secure flight data for the CIA’s network of jets that were used to transport rendition victims. That data... helped blow the entire thing out of the water and expose how widespread it was”
Mark Conrad & David Hencke
Exaro News Mark Conrad – Exaro and Guardian
David Hencke – Journalist of the Year 2013
Trust these two journalists
I have worked with both of these men
and I can assure you that if you do have a
story to tell but don’t want your name
plastered all over the papers, then these
people will ensure total confidentiality –
while finding out what you need to know.
They are not private detectives – so they
will want to print the scoop.
Exaro - Current Investigations
Defending Kenneth Clarke MP against
false accusations of sexual misconduct.
Finding the hidden special branch file on
Cyril Smith’s activities with children.
Finding out what certain pop stars,
ministers, MPs and MI5 officers were
doing in the Elm Guest House in
Richmond
In the last three months...
Tracing the activities of MPs who were
taking young boys to Amsterdam.
Investigating activities connected to the
Haute La Garenne Children’s Home in
Jersey
Discovering the hidden store of files on
the cover-up of the Saudi Arabian arms
bribery scandal
Do you need help?
Do you have a secret concern that you
would like resolving but the police or
other institutions won’t look at?
Then investigative journalism could be the
answer.
Please feel free to talk to me in private
and I will advise you how to contact these
journalists without anyone else knowing
that you have done so.
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