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Gerli, Matteo, Marco Mazzoni, and Roberto Mincigrucci. "Constraints and limitations of investigative journalism in Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Romania." European Journal of Communication 33, no. 1 (January 3, 2018): 22–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323117750672.

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The article provides evidences about mechanisms and practices that undermine the effectiveness of investigative journalism through the analysis of selected case studies of corruptive phenomena in Italy, Hungary, Romania and Latvia. In particular, the article shows that the idea of watchdog journalism does not work actually in the observed countries. Indeed, investigative journalism requires certain socio-economic conditions, such as a low degree of influence of the political and economic spheres and a high level of journalistic professionalism, which are not (always) present in the aforementioned countries. More specifically, the article focuses on three aspects that may distort investigative journalists’ work: a certain proximity (sometimes overlapping) of publishers (often rich oligarchs or prominent businessmen) and politicians, the ‘blackmail’ exercised through advertising investments and the interferences of secret services, which may dissuade newsrooms from performing their role as the watchdog.
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Lynch, Jake Alexander. "Deon and Telos: How Journalisms Are Evolving Their Ethical Approaches." Journalism and Media 2, no. 3 (August 13, 2021): 484–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2030029.

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Survey evidence shows a deontological ethical ideology remains dominant in global journalism, underpinned by a cultural value of detachment. This article opens by considering the strain imposed on these precepts in US corporate media while covering the Trump White House—ultimately to breaking point with the defeated president’s campaign to overturn the result, attempting to co-opt news organisations in the process. Feedback loops of cause and effect have, in any case, been exposed in today’s extended media, making the involvement of journalism in stories—through influence on audience responses and source behaviours—impossible to overlook. At the same time, new journalisms are emerging and growing, which adhere instead to a teleological ethical ideology. They openly identify themselves with external goals, and appeal for funds from donors and supporters on that basis. The article then goes on to present original data from analysing statements of aims and purpose put out by 12 news organisations working in four of these new fields: Peace Journalism; Solutions Journalism; Engaged, or Participatory Journalism; and Investigative Journalism, respectively. These represent a growing edge in journalism, it is argued, since they are positioned to respond positively to the changed conditions brought about by political and technological forces, which were illustrated by the Trump crisis. The study points to the changes in institutional arrangements now needed, if the structural foundations for their survival and success are to be strengthened.
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Emig, Jürgen. "Barriers of Investigative Sports Journalism: An Empirical Inquiry into the Conditions of Information Transmission." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 21, no. 2-3 (June 1986): 113–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/101269028602100204.

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Stiekolshchikova, Valentyna. "Specifity and conceptualization of social and psychological basis of effective gradation of journalistic investigation topical variety." Proceedings of Research and Scientific Institute for Periodicals, no. 10(28) (January 2020): 288–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.37222/2524-0331-2020-10(28)-21.

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At present a journalistic investigation is one of the most popular genres of journalism. At the same time it is the most expensive and the most valued. An investigation requires a journalist to search constantly for relevant resonant topics, sources of information, in the unsafe work conditions. Additionally, the investigators often lack a moral satisfaction of their work due to some reasons. Specifically, revelations produce some certain public feedback, but usually there are no constructive reactions from social institutions. This article aims to study ideological and topical gradation of quality journalistic investigations, as a component of the creative process and social and psychological basis of the investigator’s media experience, outlining the basic concepts of intensification and effectiveness of the modern resonant investigation. Research methodology is a combined system of methods, including communicative-rhetorical and search methods, with the elements of semiotics and media analysis; method of functional―structural and stylistic analysis, as well as conceptual approach of the author. Research findings and conclusions. The paper presents a diverse vision of the journalistic investigation thematic choice through the prism of social order and resonance. The detailed gradation of ideological and thematic directions of the investigations in the context of unity of regional and all-Ukrainian investigative texts of different types of publications has been presented. It has been proved that a variety of topics, ideas and concepts has their action components, certain structural features, characters (e.g., protagonist and antagonist), specifics of the main interview, set of source tools, response and audience. We differentiate topical variety of investigative texts, present their analysis, and illustrate them with relevant examples. We conclude that at present investigative texts in Ukraine could be classified as follows: portrait, social, corruption-related, political crime, historical mysteries, criminal, economic, ecological, sport and art-related investigations. Keywords: journalistic investigation, investigative text, storytelling, experimental and practical socio-triad, stirring up of readers’ interest.
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Undurraga, Tomás. "Knowledge-production in journalism: Translation, mediation and authorship in Brazil." Sociological Review 66, no. 1 (April 18, 2017): 58–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026117704832.

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Based on a multi-site ethnography of two influential newspapers in Brazil, this article examines how Brazilian journalists mediate knowledge claims made by experts, policy makers and the lay public. It asks whether and how these journalists experience themselves as knowledge-makers. More specifically, it argues that Brazilian journalists index their production of knowledge in reference to four main characteristics: depth, authorship, influence, and expertise. Journalists tend to consider newsmaking a contribution to knowledge when: (1) they have the resources to do proper investigative reporting (depth); (2) they are able to help define the public agenda through their reporting and to express their opinion (authorship); (3) they have impact on the polity, the economy or other fields they cover (influence) and (4) their journalistic knowledge is recognized by readers and by specialists (expertise). In practice, however, there are multiple obstacles that make Brazilian journalists hesitant about their contribution to knowledge, including intensified working conditions, the lack of plurality within the mainstream presses, and their informal methods for dealing with knowledge claims from other fields. This research reveals that Brazilian journalists have different understandings of the nature of knowledge in journalism. These understandings cluster around two distinct poles: an expert notion of knowledge associated with disciplinary boundaries, and a distinct conception associated with journalists’ capacity to mediate between jurisdictions. When journalists’ production is assessed from the former point of view, the informality of their methods is seen as undermining their knowledge credentials. By contrast, when journalists’ contribution is assessed from the latter point of view, their ‘interactional expertise’ comes to the fore.
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Canto Valdés, Luis Roberto, Maritel Yanes Pérez, and Dora Elia Ramos Muñoz. "El crimen de Tekax: la crónica periodística y su narrativa crítica en Yucatán en 1890 / The crime of Tekax: the journalistic chronicle and its critical narrative inYucatán in 1890." Revista Trace, no. 79 (January 29, 2021): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22134/trace.79.2021.743.

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Se documenta la nota roja publicada sobre un crimen acontecido en una hacienda henequenera de Tekax, Yucatán, en 1890. Se analiza el manejo que la prensa dio a un homicidio, mientras se explica cómo se construyó el control social en el Yucatán rural, y se exploran las razones por las que el periodismo yucateco se interesó en el suceso. El interés del trabajo es explicar cómo la prensa decimonónica meridana presentó evidencias sobre el homicidio de un jornalero y mostró evidencias de cómo se integró en su nota roja una crítica a las condiciones laborales y al andamiaje legal y de investigación que cimentaban el maltrato de los jornaleros mayas por el personal del hacendado.Abstract: The «red note» published on a crime occurred in a henequen farm of Tekax Yucatan in 1890 is documented. The handling of the press gave homicide is analyzed, while explaining how social control was built in rural Yucatan, and the reasons why Yucatecan journalism was interested in the event. This work explain how the nineteenthcentury press of Merida presented evidence about the murder of a day laborer and showed evidence of how a criticism of working conditions and legal and investigative scaffolding that cemented the mistreatment of day laborers was integrated in their red note Maya by the landowner’s staff.Keywords: social control; social change; journalism; social critic; homicide.Résumé : Il s’agit d’une note rouge publiée à propos d’un crime survenu dans une exploitation d’henequen à Tekax, Yucatan en 1890. Est ainsi analysée la manière dont la presse a rendu compte d’un assassinat, tout en expliquant comment fonctionnait le contrôle social dans le Yucatan rural, et pourquoi le journalisme du Yucatan s’est intéressé à cet évènement. L’intérêt de cet article se trouve dans la manière de rendre compte d’un double processus : la presse de Mérida a présenté les preuves de l’assassinat d’un travailleur journalier, tout en intégrant dans la note rouge une critique des conditions de travail et une analyse de l’échafaudage juridique qui a contribué aux mauvais traitements subis par les journaliers mayas de la part du personnel du grand propriétaire.Mots-clés : contrôle social ; changement social ; journalisme ; critique sociale ; assassinat.
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O'LEARY, PAUL. "Mass commodity culture and identity: the Morning Chronicle and Irish migrants in a nineteenth-century Welsh industrial town." Urban History 35, no. 2 (August 2008): 237–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926808005476.

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ABSTRACTThe ‘Labour and the Poor’ investigations of the Morning Chronicle newspaper, which charted social conditions in towns outside London in 1849–51, subjected Irish migrants in Britain to a hostile journalistic gaze. In the case of the iron-manufacturing town of Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales, the minority Irish ethnic identity was defined by observers in terms of exclusion from an emerging mass commodity culture and in opposition to the native working class. This early investigative journalism deployed some conventions of the contemporary novel that were familiar to its mainly middle-class readership to root social identities in material conditions.
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Poluekhtova, Irina A., Olga Yu Vikhrova, and Elena L. Vartanova. "Effectiveness of Online Education for the Professional Training of Journalists: Students’ Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Psychology in Russia: State of the Art 13, no. 4 (2020): 26–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/pir.2020.0402.

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Background. The necessity to introduce digital technologies in education and in the professional training of journalism students in particular has been widely discussed in the theory and practice of education over the past 20 years. From the point of view of both future research and training, it becomes very important to study the development of journalists’ professional competencies and professional identity in the online environment. Objective. To study the experience of distance learning by students in the faculty of journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University during the period of restrictive measures in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic (Spring 2020). Design. A two-stage empirical project studied the opinions of students about distance learning, to identify its effectiveness for the formation of professional competencies and identity. In the first stage, a qualitative (investigative) study was conducted on a small sample using semi-formalized tools. In the second stage, a formal survey was conducted on a representative sample (N = 576). Results. We found that in order to achieve the social, educational, and cognitive presence necessary for effective online education, an important condition is the communication environment and stable communication among all participants: students, professors, and academic departments. However, the communicative environment of the traditional training process is not transferred to the online environment in its original form. With Internet technologies, it is difficult to provide a strong teaching presence, which is a catalyst for the development of social and cognitive presence and a key component of traditional professional training. In the online learning mode, students are overloaded with self-study and written assignments, and mastering the necessary professional knowledge, competencies, and skills becomes their own responsibility. Not all components of the traditional educational process (types and forms of classes, educational materials, etc.), remain effective when transferred to the online environment. Conclusion. The formation of professional competencies, as well as the social, cognitive, and behavioral components that determine the further development of professional identity, is difficult in distance education. Online learning cannot be regarded as a full-fledged alternative to the traditional higher professional education of journalists.
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Finkelstein, David. "INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM." Journalism Practice 2, no. 1 (February 2008): 130–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17512780701768576.

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Sharma, Richa, and Shashikala Nagraj. "A Rare Case of Vaginal Dermoid Cyst: A Case Report and Review of Literature." International Journal of Infertility & Fetal Medicine 3, no. 3 (2012): 102–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10016-1051.

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ABSTRACT Vaginal dermoid cyst is a rare condition. Ultrasound is the investigative tool and treatment is surgical through a transvaginal approach. How to cite this article Sharma R, Rao KA, Nagraj S. A Rare Case of Vaginal Dermoid Cyst: A Case Report and Review of Literature. Int J Infertility Fetal Med 2012;3(3):102-104.
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Kohler, Rachel. "Supporting Open Source Investigative Journalism with Crowdsourced Image Geolocation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78697.

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Journalists rely on image and video verification to support their investigations and often utilize open source tools to verify user generated content, but current practice requires experts be involved in every step of the process. Additionally, lacking custom tools to support verification efforts, experts are often limited to the utility of existing, openly available tools, which may or may not support the interactions and information gathering they require. We aim to support the process of geolocating images and videos through crowdsourcing. By enabling crowd workers to participate in the geolocation process, we can provide investigative journalists with efficient and complete verification of image locations. Parallelizing searching speeds up the verification process as well as provides a more extensive search, all while allowing the expert to follow up on other leads or investigative work. We produced a software prototype called GroundTruth which enables crowd workers to support investigative journalists in the geolocation of visual media quickly and accurately. Additionally, this work contributes experimental results demonstrating how the crowd can be utilized to support complex sensemaking tasks.
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O'Neill, Eamonn Patrick. "Investigative journalism after Watergate in the USA and UK : a comparative study in professional practice." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2010. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11901.

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Dickinson, Lauren A. "The Strength of State Government Reporting| How In-Depth News and Investigative Coverage by Six U.S. Newspapers Fared from 2005 Through 2014." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10124762.

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America’s legacy media institutions, particularly print newspapers, experienced transformational change from 2005 through 2014. The Internet’s rise as an advertising competitor, coupled with an historic economic downturn beginning in 2007, led to crippling financial hardship. In response, many newspapers slashed budgets, staff, and content. These trends raise lasting concerns about the vitality of American journalism. Previous research documents the industry’s financial woes, explores implications for its future, and proposes reforms. This study contributes to the literature by examining how news content changed during this unique period. Specifically, it assesses how state government reporting by six U.S. publications—California’s The Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times, Florida’s Tallahassee Democrat and Tampa Bay Times, and Pennsylvania’s The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Patriot-News—fared from 2005-14. A systematic content analysis of more than 4,000 articles measured two key indicators of journalistic strength over time: (1) the volume of in-depth news articles, and (2) the amount of investigative coverage. The research shows that across the six outlets, in-depth news pieces declined 30 percent from 2005-14, and investigative coverage dropped 17 percent. Half of the outlets experienced three or more consecutive years without any investigative coverage of state government. Below these topline trends, however, was a great deal of variation by outlet and year. These findings empirically support what media scholars and observers alike have suspected: The financial crises of the preceding decade diluted news content. More importantly, they underpin concerns that powerful actors are making critical choices on behalf of citizens with weaker media watchdogs holding them accountable.

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Vodanovich, Jonathan Ante. "A critical investigation of the Landmark Education phenomenon." AUT University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/906.

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This thesis explores Landmark Education, an American personal development company which claims to transform lives for the better. The purpose of this work is to analyse the pros and cons of various participants and professionals connected with Landmark Education. This work has been carried out as a piece of investigative journalism and reflects the principles of this field. Chapter one addresses contemporary criticisms of Landmark and outlines the main points of the investigation which will be analysed and debated in chapter three. Chapter two gives a historical background to the self-help and personal development realm that Landmark belongs to. This chapter is more informative in tone and provides an indepth discussion on est, the company to precede Landmark. Chapter three is the investigative component of this thesis and contains interviews of Landmark supporters and critics. These include former and current participants of Landmark Education, as well as professionals of clinical psychology and the personal coaching fields. This chapter primarily addresses issues connected with critical claims that Landmark is a cult. The thesis is accompanied by a supporting exegesis which outlines the relevant theoretical, historical, critical and design contexts and also seeks to defend both the applied research methodology and theoretical base.
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Backlund, Benjamin. "“The government is watching – don’t step on their toes” : An investigation of the press freedom and the working conditions for journalists in Tanzania." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-158136.

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According to reports from Reporters sans frontiers and Freedom House, the freedom of the press has declined during the recent years in the sub-Saharan country Tanzania. Using the human rights reports as an entry point, this study set out to investigate the working conditions for journalists in the capital de facto of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam. An important aim was to dig deeper and show the local and culturally specific conditions. The study supports that the press freedom, as well as the working conditions have declined during the last years for the journalists in Dar es Salaam. However, the study also shows that the new laws and government measures, described by the human rights reports as reducing the press freedom, is not considered by every journalist to be negative. The challenges differ among the corps of journalists, as their values of journalism differs. The greatest denominator among the informants was the high-degree of journalistic interventionism, directed at helping the society. In some cases, this took form as a practice of development journalism. The strong connections to the local community, the country and the religious affiliations are thought to contribute to these values. For journalists in private media, the press freedom was found to be the most acute problem, while for journalists in state-owned media it was economic issues. The press freedom was connected to the perceived job autonomy, and senior journalists and journalists working for international media were found to be more autonomous. Self-censorship was used by many in the private media sector as a tool to avoid both bureaucratic harassment from government, as well as violent repercussions. The main challenges included new restricting laws, economic issues which lead to the practice of brown envelopes, the parliament being located in Dodoma, gender-issues, scared sources and the advancement of social media. Theories and earlier research evolving from the values of journalism and journalism in Africa were used as tools to understand and compare with. The results are based on fieldwork conducted during a period of two months in the beginning of 2019, with qualitative interviews held with journalists in the city of Dar es Salaam.
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Senator, Rasmus, and Andreas Westerlind. "Sportjournalister – inte lika bra på att gräva? : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om synen på objektivitetsidealet och kritisk granskning inom sportjournalistiken." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-118838.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the view of the ideal of objectivity in sports journalism and other factors that can effect a journalists terms to their journalistic ethic such as the commercialization, investigative journalism and their relationship to their sources. The purpose is further to investigate if these different factors differ on a national- or local level of sports journalism. For this study we have chosen the method of a qualitative interview, where six sports journalists and two news editors are included. The interviews have been deducted with help of an interview guide, which has been used the same way  the journalists that’s been interview.  This particular field of journalism studies is yet to be discovered in a bigger scale. Therefore, this study has used a great bit of earlier research and also three different theories to help us in answering the purpose of the study and our question formulation; News management, Media logic and the Swedish exchange-theory. The result of the study shows that there are some differences in how journalists on a national- and a local newspaper view the importance of investigative journalism, relationships with their sources and how they apply the ideal of objectivity in their role as a journalist. The study also shows that commercialization of the sports industry has an impact on sport journalism were several new actors such as public relation-experts and organizations want to effect the media and “sell” their product to the newspapers.
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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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Palfreman, Jon. "Communicating controversy in the mass media." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2005. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/communicating-controversy-in-the-mass-media(65320260-4d82-4ec9-82ac-a7cf363f0e13).html.

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This doctoral submission grew out of a series of long form documentaries that I wrote, produced, and directed between 1993 and the present. The films, which were broadcast on US television's PBS network, all deal with scientific, medical, or environmental issues that developed into prominent national and international controversies. DVDs and scripts of the seven programs are provided along with a detailed overview. The submission is organized as three projects and an overview. 1. Project One (discussed in chapters 3-7) consists of three documentaries: the first about a novel therapy for autism ; the second dealing with the alleged health effects of power line electromagnetic fields ; and the third focused on the silicone breast implant controversy. 2. Project Two (discussed in chapters 8-11) consists of programs on nuclear energy, Gulf War Syndrome, and genetically modified foods. 3. Project Three (discussed in chapters 12-14) features a two-hour special investigation of global warming. 4. The Overview, Communicating Controversy in the Mass Media not only provides an overarching analysis of the portfolio of films and the attendant theoretical issues, but also serves to summarize the works themselves. In the Project sections of the written overview (chapters 3-14), the analysis is interwoven with extracts from the various documentaries. This portfolio and overview tells the evolving story of a body of work at the intersection of documentary, investigative journalism and science. It reveals the journey of one producer who started out with an interest in unpacking complex controversies, but became increasingly fascinated with the psychological and political dimensions of these narratives. Whether a particular controversial belief holds up under scrutiny is undoubtedly important. But there are other fascinating questions: why do people adopt such beliefs in the first place; why do individuals cling to their beliefs in the face of contrary scientific evidence; and what roles do special interests and the media play in amplifying or attenuating the public's hopes and fears? This portfolio and overview, therefore, not only examine a series of high profile controversies, but go further by: explaining the process by which these topics were turned into documentaries; exploring the way humans analyze, perceive and communicate benefits and risks; and critically examining the validity and ethical standing of modern television journalism. This submission represents a significant contribution to knowledge in several ways. First this series of in-depth, original investigations of environmental and health controversies from one producer is unparalleled in broadcast journalism. Second, the overview's analysis synthesizes and extends a wide range of social science research on risk assessment, risk perception and risk communication and applies this research to the featured controversies and the media's role in them. Third, the portfolio and overview reveal how a blend of documentary, journalism and science is an especially effective way of advancing public understanding of and engagement with modern scientific controversies and goes on to suggest some exciting new directions for communicators. Finally, the case studies in this portfolio provide a basis of knowledge about how communicators can effectively use audiovisual media to navigate the world of risks and benefits that permeates many of society's most crucial policy dilemmas.
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Médoc, Nicolas. "A visual analytics approach for multi-resolution and multi-model analysis of text corpora : application to investigative journalism." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCB042/document.

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À mesure que la production de textes numériques croît exponentiellement, un besoin grandissant d’analyser des corpus de textes se manifeste dans beaucoup de domaines d’application, tant ces corpus constituent des sources inépuisables d’information et de connaissance partagées. Ainsi proposons-nous dans cette thèse une nouvelle approche de visualisation analytique pour l’analyse de corpus textuels, mise en œuvre pour les besoins spécifiques du journalisme d’investigation. Motivées par les problèmes et les tâches identifiés avec une journaliste d’investigation professionnelle, les visualisations et les interactions ont été conçues suivant une méthodologie centrée utilisateur, impliquant l’utilisateur durant tout le processus de développement. En l’occurrence, les journalistes d’investigation formulent des hypothèses, explorent leur sujet d’investigation sous tous ses angles, à la recherche de sources multiples étayant leurs hypothèses de travail. La réalisation de ces tâches, très fastidieuse lorsque les corpus sont volumineux, requiert l’usage de logiciels de visualisation analytique se confrontant aux problématiques de recherche abordées dans cette thèse. D’abord, la difficulté de donner du sens à un corpus textuel vient de sa nature non structurée. Nous avons donc recours au modèle vectoriel et son lien étroit avec l’hypothèse distributionnelle, ainsi qu’aux algorithmes qui l’exploitent pour révéler la structure sémantique latente du corpus. Les modèles de sujets et les algorithmes de biclustering sont efficaces pour l’extraction de sujets de haut niveau. Ces derniers correspondent à des groupes de documents concernant des sujets similaires, chacun représenté par un ensemble de termes extraits des contenus textuels. Une telle structuration par sujet permet notamment de résumer un corpus et de faciliter son exploration. Nous proposons une nouvelle visualisation, une carte pondérée des sujets, qui dresse une vue d’ensemble des sujets de haut niveau. Elle permet d’une part d’interpréter rapidement les contenus grâce à de multiples nuages de mots, et d’autre part, d’apprécier les propriétés des sujets telles que leur taille relative et leur proximité sémantique. Bien que l’exploration des sujets de haut niveau aide à localiser des sujets d’intérêt ainsi que leur voisinage, l’identification de faits précis, de points de vue ou d’angles d’analyse, en lien avec un événement ou une histoire, nécessite un niveau de structuration plus fin pour représenter des variantes de sujet. Cette structure imbriquée révélée par Bimax, une méthode de biclustering basée sur des motifs avec chevauchement, capture au sein des biclusters les co-occurrences de termes partagés par des sous-ensembles de documents pouvant dévoiler des faits, des points de vue ou des angles associés à des événements ou des histoires communes. Cette thèse aborde les problèmes de visualisation de biclusters avec chevauchement en organisant les biclusters terme-document en une hiérarchie qui limite la redondance des termes et met en exergue les parties communes et distinctives des biclusters. Nous avons évalué l’utilité de notre logiciel d’abord par un scénario d’utilisation doublé d’une évaluation qualitative avec une journaliste d’investigation. En outre, les motifs de co-occurrence des variantes de sujet révélées par Bima. sont déterminés par la structure de sujet englobante fournie par une méthode d’extraction de sujet. Cependant, la communauté a peu de recul quant au choix de la méthode et son impact sur l’exploration et l’interprétation des sujets et de ses variantes. Ainsi nous avons conduit une expérience computationnelle et une expérience utilisateur contrôlée afin de comparer deux méthodes d’extraction de sujet. D’un côté Coclu. est une méthode de biclustering disjointe, et de l’autre, hirarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation (hLDA) est un modèle de sujet probabiliste dont les distributions de probabilité forment une structure de bicluster avec chevauchement. (...)
As the production of digital texts grows exponentially, a greater need to analyze text corpora arises in various domains of application, insofar as they constitute inexhaustible sources of shared information and knowledge. We therefore propose in this thesis a novel visual analytics approach for the analysis of text corpora, implemented for the real and concrete needs of investigative journalism. Motivated by the problems and tasks identified with a professional investigative journalist, visualizations and interactions are designed through a user-centered methodology involving the user during the whole development process. Specifically, investigative journalists formulate hypotheses and explore exhaustively the field under investigation in order to multiply sources showing pieces of evidence related to their working hypothesis. Carrying out such tasks in a large corpus is however a daunting endeavor and requires visual analytics software addressing several challenging research issues covered in this thesis. First, the difficulty to make sense of a large text corpus lies in its unstructured nature. We resort to the Vector Space Model (VSM) and its strong relationship with the distributional hypothesis, leveraged by multiple text mining algorithms, to discover the latent semantic structure of the corpus. Topic models and biclustering methods are recognized to be well suited to the extraction of coarse-grained topics, i.e. groups of documents concerning similar topics, each one represented by a set of terms extracted from textual contents. We provide a new Weighted Topic Map visualization that conveys a broad overview of coarse-grained topics by allowing quick interpretation of contents through multiple tag clouds while depicting the topical structure such as the relative importance of topics and their semantic similarity. Although the exploration of the coarse-grained topics helps locate topic of interest and its neighborhood, the identification of specific facts, viewpoints or angles related to events or stories requires finer level of structuration to represent topic variants. This nested structure, revealed by Bimax, a pattern-based overlapping biclustering algorithm, captures in biclusters the co-occurrences of terms shared by multiple documents and can disclose facts, viewpoints or angles related to events or stories. This thesis tackles issues related to the visualization of a large amount of overlapping biclusters by organizing term-document biclusters in a hierarchy that limits term redundancy and conveys their commonality and specificities. We evaluated the utility of our software through a usage scenario and a qualitative evaluation with an investigative journalist. In addition, the co-occurrence patterns of topic variants revealed by Bima. are determined by the enclosing topical structure supplied by the coarse-grained topic extraction method which is run beforehand. Nonetheless, little guidance is found regarding the choice of the latter method and its impact on the exploration and comprehension of topics and topic variants. Therefore we conducted both a numerical experiment and a controlled user experiment to compare two topic extraction methods, namely Coclus, a disjoint biclustering method, and hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation (hLDA), an overlapping probabilistic topic model. The theoretical foundation of both methods is systematically analyzed by relating them to the distributional hypothesis. The numerical experiment provides statistical evidence of the difference between the resulting topical structure of both methods. The controlled experiment shows their impact on the comprehension of topic and topic variants, from analyst perspective. (...)
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Jauhola, Anna Elina. "Representation of investigative journalism on film: : Comparative textual analysis of two Hollywood movies’ approach to journalistic core values." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-64836.

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This dissertation discusses the representation of investigative journalism in two Hollywood films produced between 2009 and 2015. The films in question are Spotlight (2015) and State of Play (2009). Investigative reporting and its practices are being discussed by using academic literature and previous research as the foundation of the study, followed by a discussion about the chosen research method: textual analysis. The textual analysis is conducted by concentrating specifically on three core journalistic practices of objectivity, use of sources and news values, and how these practices are represented in the films. The three core practices are teased out by using specific sequences from the movies in a form of images. The results of the analysis are then contrasted towards the existing literature discussed in the literature review. By using the means of textual analysis, the study found that both films are relying on stereotypes about journalism yet certain ‘reality’ about journalism can be found in these films. The journalists are in many cases shown as outcasts yet heroic figures who conduct thorough investigation and inform the public. In both films, the profession of investigative journalism is legitimized, and the journalists are depicted as the watchdogs of the society. Both movies lay much importance on the individual reporters and the investigation processes: processes that are rare in real newsrooms. This further enhances the mythic and overly positive, romanticized representation on journalism in films. As the study was based on textual analysis only, its nature was qualitative and interpretative. Future studies could include, yet not be limited to, adding another method and through this, to further deepen the research about journalism in films. Areas of research could include films produced in the 21st century and more specifically, films about journalism in the digital era.
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Origini e modelli del giornalismo investigativo: Ida M. Tarbell e i muckrakers. Civitella in Val di Chiana, Arezzo: Zona, 2012.

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Cornelius, Minor, ed. Investigative journalism. Portsmouth, NH: First Hand, an imprint of Heinemann, 2014.

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Leigh, David. Investigative Journalism. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3.

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Bausum, Ann. Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens helped expose scandal, inspire reform, and invent investigative journalism. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2007.

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Investigative journalism handbook. Klein Windhoek: Namibia Institute for Democracy, 2008.

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Hahn, Oliver, and Florian Stalph, eds. Digital Investigative Journalism. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97283-1.

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Benjaminson, Peter. Investigative reporting. 2nd ed. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.

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Aggarwal, S. K. Investigative journalism in India. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1990.

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Lanka, Transparency International Sri. Resource book on investigative journalism. Colombo: Transparency International Sri Lanka, 2011.

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Sawatsky, John. Librarians as investigative journalists. [Saskatchewan]: Saskatchewan Library Association, 1985.

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Leigh, David. "Introduction." In Investigative Journalism, 1–4. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_1.

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Leigh, David. "Fake News in Mainstream Journalism." In Investigative Journalism, 155–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_10.

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Leigh, David. "Trafigura: A Classic Investigation." In Investigative Journalism, 175–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_11.

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Leigh, David. "Conclusion: A Golden Age for Investigative Journalism?" In Investigative Journalism, 197–208. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_12.

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Leigh, David. "A Short History of Investigative Journalism." In Investigative Journalism, 5–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_2.

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Leigh, David. "Two Case Histories: Jonathan Aitken and BAe." In Investigative Journalism, 23–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_3.

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Leigh, David. "Investigative Journalists and Their Bosses." In Investigative Journalism, 43–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_4.

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Leigh, David. "Journalists Versus the Law." In Investigative Journalism, 59–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_5.

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Leigh, David. "Dealing with Spies and Spooks." In Investigative Journalism, 85–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_6.

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Leigh, David. "Conspiracy Theories." In Investigative Journalism, 99–110. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16752-3_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "The condition of investigative journalism"

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Wiedemann, Gregor, Seid Muhie Yimam, and Chris Biemann. "A Multilingual Information Extraction Pipeline for Investigative Journalism." In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-2014.

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Ordóñez, Kruzkaya, Abel Suing, Vladimir Stoitchkov, and Jazmín Cuenca. "THE TEACHING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM THROUGH INNOVATIVE GLOBAL TECHNIQUES." In 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2019.2145.

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Ekşioğlu Sarılar, Naciye Beril. "From Global to Local: Investigative Journalism Changing in Digital Age." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.023.

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The data, raw material of information, is crucial in terms of being able to reach a piece of news comprising necessary information of which concealed from the public but must be known for the interest of the public. The use of communication technologies gained a new dimension for the first time in 2010 with Wikileaks documents and subsequent to that with Panama Papers. In this study, investigative journalism has been regarded from a conceptual and historical perspective, and the changing of investigative journalism and its aspect turning from global to local strived to be conveyed with the witness of investigative journalists, especially based on one of the examples of investigative journalism, the Panama Papers.
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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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Klaiqi, Ganimet. "Investigative Journalism and its Influence in the Framework of Social and Institutional of Kosova." In University for Business and Technology International Conference. Pristina, Kosovo: University for Business and Technology, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.33107/ubt-ic.2016.34.

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Descamps, Camille. "A comprehensive approach of professional representations of American and Belgian investigative journalists : an exploratory study of the identity function of the practice within the journalistic field." In 2nd Annual International Conference on Journalism & Mass Communications (JMComm 2013). Global Science and Technology Forum, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2301-3710_jmcomm13.22.

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Elkilany, Elsayed Abdelwahed. "Arabic Language Topics in Al Arab Qatari Newspaper: A Study in Journalistic Treatment Patterns." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0252.

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The purpose of this research is to explore the patterns of journalistic treatments for issues of Arab Language in Al Arab Qatari newspaper during the year of 2017. It also seeks to understand the degree to which this journalistic behavior enhances Qatar National identity. The importance of this research, which is funded by Qatar National Research Fund, No. UREP21-095-5-009 is to test the relationship between journalistic practices in relation to coverage of Arabic language issues and national identity. As interdisciplinary research combining Arabic language and journalism studies, its data were gathered by students of Arabic and Mass Communication Departments. The study adopted the descriptive and analytical approach to explore a sample of 841 publications that covered 10 linguistic forms including folk literature, translation, sermon, thought, novel, narration, poetry, story, drama and others as well as 6 editorial forms including investigative report, news report, dialogue, news, article, feature story and others. We analyze both the editorial content and the layout treatment. The results showed a statistical significance in the use of different editorial forms to demonstrate the Arabic language topics in Al Arab Qatari newspaper as well as the use of different layout techniques such as positioning, size, headline style and the accompanying visual elements. Future studies can compare the influence of different journalistic practices on national identity.
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Vekteris, Vladas, and Vadim Mokshin. "Investigation of the Hydrodynamic Behavior of New Construction Hydrodynamic Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing." In World Tribology Congress III. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/wtc2005-63182.

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The paper describes features of new construction pad-type (segmental) hydrodynamic bearing with mobile ring and results of investigations of this bearing. The researchers obtained complex method of interaction between the mobile ring and pads. Except the diagram of distribution of lubricant pressure on the surface of pad there are presented photos of the flowing lubricant in the bearing and graphs of trajectories of the rotor journal’s axis for various number of revolutions of the rotor. Presented results of investigations show high stability of new construction hydrodynamic bearings in case of big number of revolutions of the rotor. Researchers hope that new construction bearings can be successfully used in tribological systems at the mentioned condition.
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Xi, Zhiqiang, Zhenqing Wu, Zhongli Li, and Jishun Li. "Research on Dynamic Shift Rule of Agricultural Tractor PST Based on Maximum Productivity." In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2018-85434.

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When worked in field traction operation, the productivity index of the tractor unit is mainly reflected by the traction performance. Through analyzing the influence factors of the maximum productivity and the traction characteristics of tractor when equipped with automatic power-shift transmission, it is determined that the improvement of traction power of tractor is the fundamental measure to obtain the maximum productivity. Based on the principle, the dynamic gearshift rule and its control strategy are presented, which takes the throttle opening and engine speed as control parameters. Taking YTO LA2004 wheeled tractor as investigative subject, the simulation analysis of heavy load working condition such as ploughing was carried out. The results show that the maximum productivity shift rule can be used to shift the transmission gear with the change of traction load, which ensure that the engine works at speed governing line near the maximum power point, it can improve the traction power and traction efficiency of tractor. And when the load is small fluctuations, it doesn’t affect the change of gear, which can avoid the repeat gearshift phenomenon. The research provided a theoretical basis for the development of automatic transmission control system of tractor.
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Bianchini, Alessandro, Davide Biliotti, Giovanni Ferrara, Lorenzo Ferrari, Elisabetta Belardini, Marco Giachi, Libero Tapinassi, and Giuseppe Vannini. "A Systematic Approach to Estimate the Impact of the Aerodynamic Force Induced by Rotating Stall in a Vaneless Diffuser on the Rotordynamic Behavior of Centrifugal Compressors." In ASME Turbo Expo 2013: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2013-95754.

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One of the main challenges of the present industrial research on centrifugal compressors is the need of extending the left margin of the operating range of the machines. As a result, interest is being paid in accurately evaluating the amplitude of the pressure fluctuations caused by rotating stall, which usually occurs prior to surge. The related aerodynamic force acting on the rotor can produce subsynchronous vibrations, which can prevent the machine to further operate, in case their amplitude is too high. These vibrations are often contained thanks to the stiffness of the oil journals. Centrifugal compressors design is, however, going towards alternative journal solutions having lower stiffness levels (e.g. Active Magnetic Bearings or Squeeze Film Dampers), which hence will be more sensitive to this kind of excitation: consequently, a more accurate estimation of the expected forces in presence of dynamic external forces like those connected to an aerodynamically unstable condition is needed to predict the vibration level and the compressor operability in similar conditions. Within this scenario, experimental tests were carried out on an industrial impeller operating at high peripheral Mach number. The dedicated test rig was equipped with several dynamic pressure probes that were inserted in the gas flow path; moreover, the rotor vibrations were constantly monitored with typical vibration probes located near the journal bearings. The pressure field induced by the rotating stall in the vaneless diffuser was reconstructed by means of an ensemble average approach, defining the amplitude and frequency of the external force acting on the impeller. The calculated force value was then included in the rotordynamic model of the test rig: the predicted vibrations on the bearings were compared with the measurements, showing satisfactory agreement. Finally, the prospects of the proposed approach are discussed by investigating the response of a real machine in high-pressure functioning when different choices of journal bearings are made.
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García-Santamaría, José Vicente. The crisis of investigative Journalism in Spain. The journalism practice in the Spanair accident. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-65-2010-916-516-537-en.

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Martínez-Sanz, R., and P. Durántez-Stolle. Performance of Investigative Journalism in Spain. The perception of its current state. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, April 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2019-1359en.

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Khomenko, Tetiana. TIME AND SPACE OF HISTORICAL PARALLELS OF EUGEN SVERSTIUK’S JOURNALISM. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11095.

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The article is dedicated to the investigation of time-space measurements of journalistic works of Eugen Sverstiuk, a well-known Ukrainian journalist. In particular, the time-space continuum of his works is being discussed, which is characterized as comprehensive, continuous, filled with archetypical images which metaphorize the text, but at the same time structure it, and are beaded on the axis of time and documentarily located in the space. The logics of images initiated in the text is exaggerated by constant dwelling of the author in the time-space dimensions of the epoque, of which he was a contemporary, as well as precise knowledge of World and Ukrainian history and culture. Historical parallelism of journalism of E. Sverstiuk possesses double potential. On the one hand, the author provides arguments for confirmation of his own opinion, and on the other, he shows us historical collisions in the new aspect, which helps consider the past, better understand the present, and think of the future. Pages of his works is space for author’s considerations, which logics impresses by free transgression of the author in the time, and his ability to grasp the most essential, although sometimes precedent, sometimes sudden and forgotten, or even unknown historical facts in order to force them to resonate in the new historical realities, first of all to indicate the importance of national and the need for assigning to it more significance. Using retrospectives, E. Sverstiuk encourages us to return to the national sources and to seek in ourselves the reflections of nationality in order to return historical truth to our audience. This is what, according to E. Sverstiuk, was believed to be one of the most necessary conditions of existence to the independent state. Time-space continuum of E. Sverstiuk’s journalism is reproduction of comprehensive history as continuous process of the development of humanity, and of formation of comprehensive, total, and so to say epic reading and understanding of these processes via accentuation of reader’s attention on key events, phenomena, and facts.
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Klement, Eyal, Elizabeth Howerth, William C. Wilson, David Stallknecht, Danny Mead, Hagai Yadin, Itamar Lensky, and Nadav Galon. Exploration of the Epidemiology of a Newly Emerging Cattle-Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus in Israel. United States Department of Agriculture, January 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2012.7697118.bard.

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In September 2006 an outbreak of 'Bluetongue like' disease struck the cattle herds in Israel. Over 100 dairy and beef cattle herds were affected. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) (an Orbivirusclosely related to bluetongue virus (BTV)), was isolated from samples collected from several herds during the outbreaks. Following are the aims of the study and summary of the results: which up until now were published in 6 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Three more articles are still under preparation: 1. To identify the origin of the virus: The virus identified was fully sequenced and compared with the sequences available in the GenBank. It appeared that while gene segment L2 was clustered with EHDV-7 isolated in Australia, most of the other segments were clustered with EHDV-6 isolates from South-Africa and Bahrain. This may suggest that the strain which affected Israel on 2006 may have been related to similar outbreaks which occurred in north-Africa at the same year and could also be a result of reassortment with an Australian strain (Wilson et al. article in preparation). Analysis of the serological results from Israel demonstrated that cows and calves were similarly positive as opposed to BTV for which seropositivity in cows was significantly higher than in calves. This finding also supports the hypothesis that the 2006 EHD outbreak in Israel was an incursive event and the virus was not present in Israel before this outbreak (Kedmi et al. Veterinary Journal, 2011) 2. To identify the vectors of this virus: In the US, Culicoides sonorensis was found as an efficient vector of EHDV as the virus was transmitted by midges fed on infected white tailed deer (WTD; Odocoileusvirginianus) to susceptible WTD (Ruder et al. Parasites and Vectors, 2012). We also examined the effect of temperature on replication of EHDV-7 in C. sonorensis and demonstrated that the time to detection of potentially competent midges decreased with increasing temperature (Ruder et al. in preparation). Although multiple attempts were made, we failed to evaluate wild-caught Culicoidesinsignisas a potential vector for EHDV-7; however, our finding that C. sonorensis is a competent vector is far more significant because this species is widespread in the U.S. As for Israeli Culicoides spp. the main species caught near farms affected during the outbreaks were C. imicolaand C. oxystoma. The vector competence studies performed in Israel were in a smaller scale than in the US due to lack of a laboratory colony of these species and due to lack of facilities to infect animals with vector borne diseases. However, we found both species to be susceptible for infection by EHDV. For C. oxystoma, 1/3 of the Culicoidesinfected were positive 11 days post feeding. 3. To identify the host and environmental factors influencing the level of exposure to EHDV, its spread and its associated morbidity: Analysis of the cattle morbidity in Israel showed that the disease resulted in an average loss of over 200 kg milk per cow in herds affected during September 2006 and 1.42% excess mortality in heavily infected herds (Kedmi et al. Journal of Dairy Science, 2010). Outbreak investigation showed that winds played a significant role in virus spread during the 2006 outbreak (Kedmi et al. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2010). Further studies showed that both sheep (Kedmi et al. Veterinary Microbiology, 2011) and wild ruminants did not play a significant role in virus spread in Israel (Kedmi et al. article in preparation). Clinical studies in WTD showed that this species is highly susceptibile to EHDV-7 infection and disease (Ruder et al. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2012). Experimental infection of Holstein cattle (cows and calves) yielded subclinical viremia (Ruder et al. in preparation). The findings of this study, which resulted in 6 articles, published in peer reviewed journals and 4 more articles which are in preparation, contributed to the dairy industry in Israel by defining the main factors associated with disease spread and assessment of disease impact. In the US, we demonstrated that sufficient conditions exist for potential virus establishment if EHDV-7 were introduced. The significant knowledge gained through this study will enable better decision making regarding prevention and control measures for EHDV and similar viruses, such as BTV.
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The Role of the Media and Investigative Journalism in Combating Corruption. Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), March 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/7590ec9d-en.

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