Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Context -- Ch. 1. Introduction / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 1a. Contacts: contact details of some organisations, sites and publications useful to investigative journalists / Steven McIntosh -- Ch. 2. The Emergence of Investigative journalism / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 3. Forty Years of British Investigative journalism / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 4. Journalism since 1997: issues and debates / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 5. Investigative journalism and blogs / Paul Bradshaw -- Ch. 6. Investigate Journalism and English Law / Chris Horrie -- Ch. 7. The English Freedom of Information Act / Chris Horrie -- Ch. 8. The Practices of Investigate Journalism /
Gavin McFadyean -- Ch. 9. Universities as evangelists of the watchdog role: teaching investigative journalism to undergraduates / Mark Hanna -- Ch. 10. Investigative journalism and scholarship / Michael Bromley -- Pt. 2. Cases -- Ch. 11. From shadow boxing to Ghost Plane: English journalism and the War on Terror? / Paul Lashmar -- Ch. 12. High politics and low behaviour: Sunday Times Insight Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 13. Investigating corporate corruption: an example from BBC's File on Four / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 14. Panorama-investigative TV? Ivor Gaber -- Ch. 15. Scrutinising social policy: an example from Channel 4's Dispatches / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 16. Journalism with attitude: The Daily Mail / Hugh Barnes -- Ch. 17. Exposing miscarriages of justice: an example from BBC's Rough Justice / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 18. Local power and public accountability: an example from the East Midlands / Mark D'Arcy -- Ch. 19. Subterfuge, set-ups, stings and stunts: how the red-tops go about their investigations / Roy Greenslade -- Ch. 20. Pillaging the environmentalists: The Cook Report / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 21. Gravedigging: the case of "the Cossacks" / Hugo de Burgh -- Ch. 22. Interfering with foreigners: First Tuesday / Hugo de Burgh.

Investigative journalism has helped bring down governments, imprison politicians, trigger legislation, reveal miscarriages of justice and shame corporations. Even today, when much of the media colludes with power and when viciousness and sensationalism are staples of formerly high-minded media, investigative journalists can stand up for the powerless, the exploited, the truth.

Investigative Journalism provides an unrivalled introduction to this vital part of our social life: its origins, the men and women who established its norms and its achievements in the last decades. Two chapters describe the relationships with the law, bringing us up to date, and others deal with the professional techniques, the sociology and the teaching of investigative journalism. A further new chapter examines the influence of the blogosphere on investigative journalism.

The case studies of the first edition have been supplemented by new chapters: the investigators and methods which revealed the subcontracting of the torture of Iraqi prisoners; how the murder of Stephen Lawrence was treated in the Daily Mail; the tabloids and their investigations; BBC Panorama.