Investigative journalists have much in common, not least an obsessive attention to detail and a compulsion to keep digging when most normal people would move on. But are these inherent character trait...
Heather Brooke
Professor Heather Brooke is an award-winning investigative journalist originally from the US now based in London. Her investigative journalism and legal action against the British Parliament for disclosure of MPs' expenses was the catalyst of the expenses scandal of 2009 that led to the biggest clear-out of politicians in decades and the first forced resignation of the Speaker of the House in 300 years. She went on to investigate hackers and Wikileaks, reporting for The Guardian. She is in two films resulting from her investigations: a BBC dramatisation about her MPs’ expenses investigation (On Expenses) and Alex Gibney’s documentary about Wikileaks entitled We Steal Secrets. She has published three non-fiction books based on her investigative work: The Revolution Will be Digitised (2011), The Silent State (2010) and Your Right to Know (2006). She runs the MA Investigative Journalism programme at City, University of London. In 2015-16 she also taught an investigative journalism course at Columbia University in New York City.
A major new UN study of 121 countries' legal source protection frameworks has found that they are out of date and need strengthening in many cases. It also recommends that ‘acts of journalism’ s...
Investigative journalism case studies - a set of four events (one per day from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 April) Can a crowd investigate? And how can journalists harness the power of social media...
Environmental investigative journalism: from waste trafficking to food frauds
Investigative journalism case studies - a set of four events (one per day from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 April) Environmental crime and how to investigate it; the tools to follow pollution, corru...
Investigative journalism case studies - a set of four events (one per day from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 April) The best scoops aren't handed out willingly. Press releases may increasingly fill re...
Investigative journalism case studies - a set of four events (one per day from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 April) A presentation of techniques used by organized crime and corrupt politicians to laun...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
The new civic journalism How can new technologies be used to provide public interest journalism? Is WikiLeaks and social media the way to hold power to account through the internet? Heather Brooke, t...
