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This thorough and engaging text gives you the confidence you need to handle any investigative reporting assignment, while helping you produce demonstrated results. It features a step-by-step plan of action that covers the whole investigative process and keeps you on track to complete stories of any size; it also helps get you started using multimedia elements from the very beginning of the project. The book answers questions you may have, including “What do I do when a source won’t talk? Where do I find the right documents to support my story? How can I best present this story online? How can I use a spreadsheet to track and organize my information?”

Investigative Reporting contains full stories and timely examples from both professionals and students. Each chapter has exercises to help you put your ideas into practice and develop investigative reporting abilities, along with Web links to online resources (including public records information, computer-assisted reporting techniques and interactive investigative story examples). Using this textbook, you will move smoothly and successfully through an investigative story or team reporting project, whether for print, broadcast or the Web.

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