Reporting, Muckraking

Completing our discussion of reporting...

Story selection

• Traditional criteria
• Journalists' background and reading habits
• The herd
• Getting Information

Getting information

• Documents
• Interviews
• Leaks: A Typology
• "On the Record," "Off the Record," "Background"

Breaking events:

• http://www.onthemedia.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-pdf/
• http://www.onthemedia.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-airline-edition/

Muckraking and Investigative Journalism

• IRE
• Center for Investigative Reporting

An example:  Al Jazeera Goes After the Calderons:

The Issue-Attention Cycle