CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Investigative journalism was described in many ways throughout the afternoon: as “uncovering the hidden”; “expensive”; “difficult”; “requiring dedication”; “has impact”; “holding power to account”. These terms are important: I’ve blogged elsewhere about journalism’s professional ideology and how it compares to bloggers’, and investigative journalism has its own professional ideology within that. If we are going to ask “But is it investigative journalism?” then these will be particularly relevant.
For example, there was a focus on investigative journalism as process that particularly fascinated me: Donal Macintyre talked about the ‘undercover reporter’ as a “narrative device” to allow them to create a narrative around important but difficult-to-dramatize issues, rather than something inherent in investigative work itself. In other words, for his purposes the process of ‘going undercover’ had a storytelling function as much as – if not more than – an investigative one.
On the other hand, some members of the audience dismissed modern examples of investigative work because it did not fit into this mythology.
A comparison of the Wikileaks, MPs’ expenses and Watergate stories is useful to flesh this out: in looking at those three where is the cut-off point that makes this one ‘investigative’, and another not? More to the point, why do we care?
Problems and Prospects of Online investigative journalism have been said to be a serious problem facing Nigerian online reporter. Some of these problems are:
research
The researcher’s objective is to conduct an in-depth research on the Problems and Prospects of Online investigative journalism with an insight to determine its implication to the values of investigative reporting in the Nigeria Mass media:
country and therefore, harness the mass media in the democratic process and development process in general.
The research questions are arranged questions meant to be asked by the researcher and receive a feedback (answer) from a respondent. For the researcher to achieve her aim, the following question should be used.
1. Do Nigerian reporters expose themselves more to internet research than other means of reporting?
Do they prefer internet research to locally means of investigative reporting?
The scope of this study is to find out how the the problemsa that hinder the development of online investigative jourmnalism in Nigeria. Also to suggest possible solution to solve the identified problems
In the cause of the research, oral interview were consulted on both reporters and other journalist of the media. But the research depends more on the questionnaire which were distributed were completed and returned. The researcher also consulted some textbooks, Newspapers and journals which provided a lot of information pertaining to the study.
Though this research work is on the problems and prospects of online investigative reporting. It is limited to he Nigerian Media industry, using 2 media houses that were randomly selected from the industry and fifty questionnaires that were distributed to them. This is because of time and
resource, had it been that time and resource were available similar studies would have been done in the country so as to ensure a more embracing result.
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