Digging Deeper: A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans

by Sheila S. Coronel

Journalists’ articles, coupled with interesting advice, skills, investigative stories, databases, tips and techniques, will inspire readers to take up the challenge of a career in investigative journalism.Digging Deeper showcases interesting investigative stories and individual journalistic successes, as well as providing an overview of investigative techniques. The various databases available in the Balkan region and tips for practitioners are the most useful elements for all journalists.This is the second edition of the guide, which BIRN has decided to publish in response to the high demand of journalists requiring a guide to investigative journalism, which resulted in the first edition being quickly sold out.This guide offers an insight into investigative practices and the most important aspects of investigative journalism, along with numerous examples and case studies, data and exercises.BIRN’s Digging Deeper is also on the curriculum of the BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting.You will be inspired to consider a move into investigative journalism thanks to the combination of advice, skills, interesting investigative stories, individual journalistic successes, databases and tips and techniques featured in Digging Deeper.

453 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 29, 2012

About the author

Sheila S. Coronel is a distinguished Filipino investigative journalist, journalism professor, and author currently based in the United States. She is known for her contributions to investigative journalism in the Philippines, co-founding the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). She has also served as the director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism since 2006.

Reviews

[Daniela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I have read this book two years ago, while taking my first Investigative Journalism class. It is a great help for an aspiring investigative journalist, especially if he or she is from the Balkans. It is an insightful book with excerpts and examples from notorious investigations in countries like Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria or Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also, at the end of each chapter there is an exercise to help you assimilate the information better. A must-read, this all I can say.


" One major problem facing Balkan journalists, therefore, is that there is so much to investigate, making it often difficult to decide where one should start".