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Vasilenko, Mуkуta. "Historical Reporting. Development of Theory, Enrichment of Empirics." Scientific notes of the Institute of Journalism, no. 2 (79) (2021): 52–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2522-1272.2021.79.4.

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In the modern scientific developments, the topic of historical reporting rarely arises. Simultaneously, historical reporting with cognitive content in the current socio-economic conditions is invaluable in terms of aesthetic and patriotic education.The objective of the article is to use concrete empiricism to confirm the fact of real existence and rapid evolution of historical report- ing, defining its stylistic characteristics, specifics of collecting factual material, adherence to the rules of professional ethics when writing original material. Research methods. The historical-comparative method is widely used to cover objectively the problem throughout its development: from fixation in the scientific literature ten years ago to this scientific study. The method of content analysis allowed to summarize and to systematize the factual material that became the basis for writing the historical reports. The method of generalization could be used when summarizing the results and depicting the prospective ways of further scientific inquiry. Results. The social changes taking place in the country since 1991 could not fail to raise the questions in mass and especially public consciousness, as for the issue of the past and the prospects for the future. When it comes to historical researches, namely the fiction on interpretation of past events and facts, sometimes their concepts differ fundamentally. The historical reporting in its form may resemble a blog, historical investigation. The author of this scientific study insists that historical reporting is as close as possible to the objective reality. Conclusions and suggestions. The historical reporting develops as a genre. A number of empiricists is increasing, the editors publish the historical researches written in a fictional style. The historical reporting will soon be perceived as an everyday reality. In regards to the prospects of training of journalists who will work in this complex genre, it should be recognized that this activity provides for significant funding involving the experts in writing the material.
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Sabaté Gauxachs, Alba, Josep Lluís Micó Sanz, and Míriam Díez Bosch. "Slow Religion: Literary Journalism as a Tool for Interreligious Dialogue." Religions 10, no. 8 (2019): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10080485.

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Intercultural and interfaith dialogue is one of the challenges faced by society. In a world marked by globalisation, digitisation, and migratory movements, the media is the agora for people of different faiths and beliefs. At the same time, the media is adapting to the online space. In this context, narrative journalism emerges, breaking the rules of technological immediacy and opting for a slow model based on the tradition of non-fiction journalism. With slow, background-based reporting and literary techniques, narrative journalism tells stories with all their aspects, giving voices to their protagonists. Is this genre a space in which to encounter the Other? Could narrative journalism be a tool for understanding? These are the questions that this research aims to investigate through the content analysis of 75 articles published in Jot Down, Gatopardo, and The New Yorker, along with 38 in-depth interviews with journalists associated to them.
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Helfer, Luzia, and Peter Van Aelst. "Why politicians react to media coverage." Mass Media Effects and the Political Agenda 4, no. 1 (2020): 88–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/asj.19002.hel.

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Abstract Why do politicians react to some stories in the news and ignore others? We attempt to answer this question by integrating the micro-level politician perspective with a macro-level country approach. Using a unique experimental approach, we test when politicians in the Netherlands and Switzerland (N = 80) take political action based on a (fictional) news report. We find that all politicians react more to negative coverage, but not if the information is merely presented as investigative reporting. Results also reveal a systematic variation that we ascribe to two key differences in the electoral systems. In The Netherlands, with its large single voting district, politicians react to news reports covering issues they are specialized in. In Switzerland, where between-party competition is more important, politicians are more likely to capitalize on the party’s profile. Overall, this study shows when and how politicians react to news coverage also depends on the institutional context.
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Kurnia, Septiawan Santana. "Wacana “Investigative Reporting”." Mediator: Jurnal Komunikasi 7, no. 2 (2006): 213–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.29313/mediator.v7i2.1289.

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Lawler, Philip F. "Investigating Investigative Reporting." Journal of Communication 38, no. 1 (1988): 189–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1988.tb02042.x.

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Santana Kunia, Septiawan, and Siti Suriani Othman. "INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PATTERN OF TEMPO WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 7, no. 1 (2019): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.713.

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Purpose of the study: Through an investigative news, “Kapal Patroli Pembawa Selisih” (Tempo, 2004, May 16), this research is conducted for the purpose of examining Tempo’s investigative reporting pattern – how Tempo conceptualize its investigative reporting, how Tempo plan its investigative reporting, how Tempo evaluate its investigative reporting and how Tempo conduct its investigative reporting. Methodology: This study uses qualitative method with case study approach, through interpretive framework. Case study approach designed for this research is a single case (embedded) in nature, which applies multi-level analysis. Analysis is carried out to discover the answers to understand the reporting of investigation, both stated by literature and meanings conceptualized by Tempo Magazine itself. ‘One observation’ is the terminology of investigative reporting (11-steps of investigative reporting by Paul N. Williams). Main Findings: Investigative reporting by Tempo Magazine is a rigorous and systematic reporting, disclosing wrongdoing based on evidence, facts and data. Investigation’s editorials of Tempo Magazine form special teams. The investigation team gives emphasis to quality and capacity of journalists, which coordinated by an editor. Investigasi rubric is systematically a reporting unit integrated with Tempo’s editorial management. Applications of this study: Tempo’s investigative activity in Indonesia is not only a matter of press action. Its presence encourages democratic verve in Indonesia. Tempo’s reporting pattern represents social, cultural, politics and other subjects. As a matter of fact, Tempo’s investigative reporting is linked to Indonesia’s Human Rights Affair, in articulating freedom of thought and opinion. Thus, this research is able to be use as material for research in politics, sociology, communication, media and cultural studies. Novelty/Originality of this study: Investigative reporting is rather a unique topic of research. Most of the research discuss investigation within the news themes and its impact, or journalistic professionalism. Thus, the research on Tempo’s investigative reporting has its novelty.
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Hunter, Mark. "Ethical Conflict and Investigative Reporting." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2, no. 2 (1997): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1081180x97002002007.

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Broussard, Meredith. "Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting." Digital Journalism 3, no. 6 (2014): 814–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2014.985497.

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Poler Kovačič, Melita, and Karmen Erjavec. "CONSTRUCTION OF SEMI-INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING." Journalism Studies 12, no. 3 (2011): 328–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2010.493321.

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Willnata, Lars, and David H. Weaver. "Public Opinion on Investigative Reporting in the 1990s: Has Anything Changed since the 1980s?" Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 75, no. 3 (1998): 449–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909807500302.

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In view of the recent developments in public attitudes toward the use of investigative reporting, this study compares past findings on perceived public importance of investigative reporting and the acceptability of different reporting methods with findings from a national telephone survey of 1,211 respondents conducted in February 1997 by Princeton Survey Research Associates. While past studies only found weak relationships between approval of investigative reporting and respondents' individual-level characteristics, this study hypothesizes that the increased use of these techniques in popular television shows and local evening news has created a highly divided audience which, while paying great attention to reports that use investigative reporting techniques, either strongly approves or disapproves of their use. Findings indicate that the best predictor for whether people approve or disapprove of investigative reporting is their general attitude toward the media's role in society, rather than increased exposure to investigative news stories.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Investigative reporting in fiction"

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Haxton, Nance Dianne. "The death of investigative journalism?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001.

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Suleiman, Suleiman Amu. "Investigative reporting and press coverage of corruption in Nigeria (1999-2012)." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/67856/.

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For African countries like Nigeria, democratic transition is conceived as not only in terms of advancing human rights and political freedoms, but also for improving political accountability, or quite simply, reducing corruption; and the role of the press is said to be central to both through watchdog and investigative journalism (Lynch and Crawford, 2011; Adebanwi and Obadare, 2011b). This research therefore asks: How and to what extent do Nigerian newspapers cover corruption and what specific role does investigative reporting play in that coverage? For answer, I content analysed front page news coverage in a sample of 2746 newspapers from four national dailies over twelve years by selecting every 6th edition in each publication from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2012. This is supplemented with a total of 8 weeks of two newsroom observation in two of the dailies in Abuja and Lagos, and in-depth interviews with 24 respondents, including investigative reporters, political reporters, editors, two members of staff of anticorruption agencies, and one official of an NGO promoting investigative journalism in Nigeria. I find three types of corruption stories in the newspapers. First, corruption scandals of real or alleged instances of corruption and in which persons and sums involved are clearly named in the stories. These constitute 45.72% of the total or slightly less than half. But corruption scandals tend to generate follow-up stories, or subsequent reports of the arrest, trial or conviction of officials involved in previously reported scandals. Finally, corruption talk which are stories of corruption but without involving any specific instances of corrupt act by any person. Corruption is the subject of the story but without the act itself, as the statements by two Nigerian presidents indicate above. Furthermore, I find that corruption is extensively and prominently reported in the press, accounting for over 8% of total front page news coverage, or an average over two corruption stories every week throughout the 12-year the period. Indeed, nearly 10% of newspapers in the sample carry two or more different stories of corruption on the same front page, further indicating a high extent of coverage. However, only a small fraction (4.76%) of this coverage issues from independent journalism by the four newspapers combined. Almost 90% of scandals, or stories of actual or alleged corruption is generated by official or state-level sources such as anti-corruption agencies, parliamentary investigations, commissions of inquiry and sometimes foreign media, through various practices of information subsidy like press releases and conferences. Equally significant, corruption stories subsidized for the press tends to involve higher a scale of corruption than those independently reported by the newspapers through investigative journalism. However, whereas existing research conceives information subsidy as having the potential to compromise the fourth estate role of the press, I argue that this is not the case in the specific instance of corruption stories in Nigerian newspapers. Indeed, information subsidy supplied by corruption investigating agencies may in fact be a necessary condition for more watchdog journalism investigated by newspapers. Watchdog role of the press with regards to exposing corruption is positively served, rather than harmed, by information subsidy resulting from horizontal accountability functions of state agencies. Furthermore, I argue that in the specific context of corruption stories in Nigerian newspapers, information subsidy itself should be understood, not only as a strategic agenda of sources for gaining coverage, but that it reflects a deeply entrenched ‘anti-corruption culture’ in Nigerian politics and society. That is, the general tendency for virtually all Nigerian governments to make ‘the fight against corruption’ the centre of policy or political action, and for citizens to demand that their governments fight corruption. With the onset of democracy over a long period never witnessed before in Nigeria however, this tendency finds free expression. This manifests, first, in the establishment of more anticorruption agencies, investigative committees, and probe panels, across all levels of government, and then in their high-profile investigations and reports which then generates most of the news about corruption in the newspapers. I illustrate these arguments in chapters four through seven and examine the role of the press in these processes, that is, the press as strong watchdogs but weak investigators.
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Bensemann, Paul Morel. "Restraints on reporting conflict in West Papua." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Media and Communication, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9123.

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This is as much an experiment in investigative reporting as it is a thesis. It explores the possibility of carrying out “research journalism” on a specific issue in a New Zealand academic environment, after a failure to complete the mission within newsrooms. The thesis debates theoretical and practical “restraints” to reporting this conflict and New Zealand’s role in it. Such restraints might include the degree of conservatism and intractability in Western traditions and practices of both the mainstream media, and of the other potential “commentating power”, universities.
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Craig, David A. "Covering the ethics angle : toward a method to evaluate and improve how journalists portray the ethical dimension of professions and society /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9842522.

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Schwartz, Debra Ann. "In the lion's mouth advocacy and investigative reporting about the environment in the early 21st century /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1551.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: Journalism. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Rollens, Michael William. "Theory of analytic journalism." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151613.

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Pule, Kediretswe. "Obstacles faced by news journalists in investigative reporting: analysis of four Botswana newspapers, June 2008 - October 2008." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/869.

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In this research study, the researcher investigates obstacles faced by news journalists in investigative journalism in a democracy as experienced in Botswana. Investigative journalism and democracy have a symbiotic relationship. This relationship serves to make the public sensitive about, and aware of, injustices and undemocratic practices and it could, ultimately, contribute significantly to the process of democratization (Faure 2005: 155). Unfortunately, in their endeavor to keep up with the ethos of investigative journalism, journalists meet obstacles that range from legal to financial issues. The author investigates those factors that reporters in Botswana rate as having the greatest impact on their investigative efforts. The study also assesses the attitudes of journalists in the country towards the roles and responsibilities of the fourth estate, which supports investigative reporting. Investigative journalism is centered on disclosure, described by six elements: public interest, theme, accuracy, follow-up reports, consequences and questioning the status quo (Faure 2005:160; Marron 1995:1). The researcher interrogated the current practice of investigative journalism in newsrooms in the Botswana context, by means of a self-administered questionnaire. A cumulative sum of scores of each rank order for each obstacle was used to observe the one rated the most impeding by Botswana journalists. Elementary descriptive statistics in the form of percentages were used to assess attitudes of Botswana journalists towards investigative journalism. The same method was used to assess the proportion of investigative stories in four sampled Botswana newspapers. The contents of the respective newspapers were assessed against the five elements of investigative reporting that include: theme, public interest, questioning the status quo, accuracy, follow-up reports and consequences.
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Dotson, Gary. "Watchdogs Still Watching| An Analysis of Investigative Reporting at the Belleville News-Democrat and Sarasota Herald-Tribune." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556753.

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Yi, Yao. "NEUTRALISM IN CCTV NEWS PROBE : —A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE IDEOLOGICALCHARACTERISTICS IN CHINA's INVESTIGATIVE TV REPORTING." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-39956.

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Justice, Lucy Victoria. "Fact, fiction or belief? : generating, reporting and distinguishing real and fabricated memories." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3350/.

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This thesis investigated intentionally fabricated autobiographical memories (IFAMs), memories deliberately created to be false. The first aim of the thesis was to understand the processes underlying IFAM generation. Secondly, the thesis examined beliefs held by the public about autobiographical memory (AM) and about lying, in an attempt to clarify current levels of knowledge. The third aim was to understand how AMs and IFAMs of staged events were reported, and to identify characteristics that could distinguish AMs from IFAMs. In particular, the work aimed to understand if entirely fabricated everyday memories differed from partially fabricated everyday and emotional memories. Finally, this thesis examined the effect that repeatedly providing an IFAM of an experienced event had on the ability to subsequently recall the original AM. AMs and IFAMs were elicited using cue word and staged event techniques. Participants were either asked to type their memories into a computer or were interviewed using structured questioning. Data regarding beliefs about memory and lying were gathered using questionnaires. Results revealed that IFAMs are frequently generated by firstly recalling a truthful AM which is then ‘edited’ to create a novel mental representation. The generation of an IFAM was therefore found to be reliably more cognitively effortful than the generation of an AM. Results also identified a number of erroneous and inconsistent beliefs about the nature of memory and of lying. Additionally, results showed that a number of characteristics could reliably identify AMs and entire IFAMs of everyday events. However, the number of characteristics was reliably reduced when AMs and partial IFAMs of everyday events were compared. Most strikingly, no characteristics were found that could reliably distinguish AMs from IFAMs of emotional events. Finally, results revealed that repeatedly providing an IFAM of a staged event reliably impaired the individual’s ability to then recall the original AM.
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Books on the topic "Investigative reporting in fiction"

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John, Dunning. Deadline. Pocket Star Books, 1997.

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Feinstein, John. Running mates. Villard Books, 1992.

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Beauman, Sally. Lovers and liars. Fawcett Crest, 1995.

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Good news, bad news. Pan Macmillan, 2013.

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Modesitt, L. E. Jr. Archform: Beauty. Tor, 2002.

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Archform: Beauty. Tor, 2002.

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Beauman, Sally. Lovers and liars. Bantam Press, 1994.

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Beauman, Sally. Lovers and liars. Fawcett Columbine, 1994.

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George, Mark St. A feast of savages: Where have all the young girls gone-- ? Proteus, 2002.

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Beauman, Sally. Lovers and liars. Bantam Books, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Investigative reporting in fiction"

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Burstiner, Marcy. "What Is Investigative Reporting?" In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-1.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Analyzing a Big Story." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-10.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Writing the Story." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-11.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Legal and Ethical Considerations." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-12.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Bulletproofing the Investigation." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-13.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Pitching the Story." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-14.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Finding the Story." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-2.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Setting Up the Investigation." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-3.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Finding Human Sources." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-4.

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Burstiner, Marcy. "Documenting the Investigation." In Investigative Reporting. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203702307-5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Investigative reporting in fiction"

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Iriberri, Alicia, and Carlos J. Navarrete. "Internet Crime Reporting: Evaluation of a Crime Reporting and Investigative Interview System by Comparison with a Non-Interactive Reporting Alternative." In 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2010.460.

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Santana, Septiawan, Edi Setiadi, Zulfebriges Zulfebriges, and Doddy Iskandar Cakranegara. "Education on Corruption Investigative Reporting for Radar Journalists at Priangan Timur." In 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019). Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200225.051.

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Knight, Alan. "Ejournalism: Production, Communication, Interaction and Research Opportunities for Reporters." In 2002 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2512.

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The Internet is shaping the ways journalists communicate, construct their stories, publish their material and interact with their audiences. Journalism produced for text, audio and television is increasing digitised; converging on the Internet to create a new hybrid professional practice, eJournalism. This paper considers how traditional forms of advanced reporting, such as investigative journalism, may be enhanced by internet technologies.
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Keyser, Ronald M., Timothy R. Twomey, Neil A. Webster, and Michael D. Belbot. "A Proposed Figure of Merit for Evaluating the Performance of Radiation Waste Measurement Systems." In ASME 2011 14th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2011-59159.

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Several different types of detectors, software, and hardware designs are employed in instruments used to monitor radioactive content of freight shipments in order to detect illicit trafficking of nuclear materials. The instruments can be container monitors, hand-held radiation detectors, mobile analysis systems, or fixed radiation portal monitors. However, within the various groupings (e.g., portal monitors), all instruments are expected to solve the same problem, that is, to detect and identify any radioactive material present according to the prescribed investigative procedure or CONOPS. The best way to compare the performance of different instruments is with a numerical score or Figure of Merit (FOM). The FOM must quantify the performance of the instrument with respect to true positives (TP), false positives (FP), and false negatives (FN). The minimization of FN for certain radionuclides (e.g., uranium and plutonium or other Special Nuclear Material (SNM)) is more important than the minimization of FN for non-threat nuclides (e.g., low level NORM). In a similar way, the minimization of FP for SNM is more important than falsely reporting the common NORM nuclides which represent no threat. System performance depends on the measurement detail (e.g., transit speed through a portal, measurement time in general, amount and distribution of NORM), therefore the test conditions should also be included in the statement of the FOM. The FOM is expected to vary significantly with the above measurement details. A FOM has been developed based on the number of true positives (TP), the number of false important positives (FIP), the number of FP, the number of true positives for SNM (TPSNM), and the number of false positives for SNM (FPSNM). This formula rates the overall performance with extra weight given to FP and FN for SNM. Examples will be shown for testing of portal monitors.
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Bott, Steven, Rob MacKenzie, Mike Hill, and Thomas Hennig. "At the Forefront of In-Line Crack Inspection Services: A Highly Versatile Crack Inspection Platform for Complex Flaw Morphologies and Absolute Depth Sizing." In 2020 13th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2020-9386.

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Abstract In 2014, Enbridge published a request for proposals to develop and provide a solution on a specific type of long seam cracks in a 26” pipeline. In-line inspection technologies available at the time were not able to consistently and accurately characterize the crack threat, although the line was successfully hydrostatically tested in 2015. During the early stages of the project, NDT Global analyzed in detail Enbridge’s requirements, including the specific challenges, spool type, seam weld characteristics etc. and provided different proposals to Enbridge. In 2016, both parties signed a development contract to develop and build a 26” Next Generation Crack Inspection Platform (Proton). The project was divided into various stages to support a successful project that met performance requirements based both on pump tests and a field trial supported by investigative digs and coupon cutouts. The robot developed is a highly versatile crack inspection platform: it allows to be set up in a configuration optimized for the given threat, pipeline conditions, inspection speed and medium characteristics. This optimization of the configuration allows choosing the optimum measurement modes for flaws in the base material and in the seam weld independently. Additionally, the local wall thickness even in the seam weld is measured accurately. These capabilities allow the operator to collect the best data for each situation. Feeding the information into the crack management program allows Enbridge to maintain the target reliability of the asset. The robot was utilized successfully in the 26” pipeline. Processing, data analysis and reporting were performed within pre-agreed periods. Initial field findings and lab tests show high correlation of ILI and real flaws and proof the stated accuracy of the new service. The authors will present in detail some of the specific challenges of the pipeline system and limitations of available crack inspection technologies. Validation results from in-the-ditch non-destructive examination and destructive freeze breaks including cross sections from flaws with complex morphologies will be shown. Performance statistics and comparison to previous inspection results will be used to demonstrate that the new robot can be used as part of an effective crack management program.
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