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Investigative journalism is a kind of Journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a topic of interest, often related to crime, scandals, government corruption, or White Collar Crime . Whereas a typical daily or weekly news reporter writes items concerning immediately available news, an investigative journalist might spend ''months'' or ''years'' on a particular report. Most investigative journalism is done by Newspaper s, Wire Service s and Freelance Journalists . The investigation will often require an extensive number of interviews and travel, other instances might call for the reporter to make use of activities such as: surveillance techniques, tedious analysis of documents, investigations of the performance of any kind of equipment involved in an accident, Patent Medicine , Scientific Analysis , social and legal issues, and the like. In short, investigative journalism requires a lot of scrutiny of details, fact-finding, and physical effort. An investigative journalist must have an analytical and incisive mind with strong self-motivation to carry on when all doors are closed, when facts are being covered up or falsified and so on. Some of the means reporters can use for their fact-finding:
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PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES In ''The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques'', Steve Weinberg defined investigative journalism as: :Reporting, through one's own initiative and work product, matters of importance to readers, viewers or listeners. In many cases, the subjects of the reporting wish the matters under scrutiny to remain undisclosed. SEE ALSO
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