Investigative Journalism by Udemy

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Investigative Journalism by Udemy
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UDEMY
Overview

How to find hidden sources. How to look for documents and people.

Duration	2 hours
Total fee	₹360
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Intermediate
Credential	Certificate

Investigative Journalism by Udemy
at
UDEMY
Highlights

Certificate of completion
Created by Anderson School of Journalism
Authors come from notable universities

Investigative Journalism by Udemy
at
UDEMY
Course details

What are the course deliverables?

You will be able to find interesting, innovative and original story ideas with impact
You will be able to turn a broad story idea into a realistic and demonstrable research hypothesis
You will be able to identify and cultivate necessary and available sources
You will be able to design and use a project file, a source map, a timeline and a logbook to keep track of your research
You will be able to conduct your inquiry from the outside in
You will be able to turn the research material into a publishable story
You will be able to deal with ethical and deontological matters concerning the story.

More about this course

Before a journalist can write a copy, he or she has to gather the required information that the text will be about. This is called investigation or research.However, investigation is not only a method, it's also a philosophy. Why? Because a solid investigation is what distinguishes quality journalism from bad journalism. Many journalists don't invest time in information gathering. There's also the expression when the journalist just copies and rewrites a text by a colleague without an own research on the topic. The very task of journalism is to properly inform the recipient ' that is the reader or the radio or TV audience ' about facts. It is obvious that the journalist has to know everything about these facts before he or she writes about them. And the journalist has to make sure these are really facts ' that means they are true.This course will talk about strategies to find good stories because without a good story, there is no investigation, and no writing. This course helps you to learn how to phrase minimum and maximum hypotheses which will guide your further investigation efforts. Your hypotheses can be true or false. The purpose of the investigation is to find out which one is the case. It will cover the research process which will find sources to build a timeline also how to look for documents or for people This course will outline the master file and which narrative principles to follow. You will get some writing tips and you will learn how fact-checking and bulletproofing is done