Understanding Collaborative Investigative Journalism in a “Post-Truth” Age

Stronger and Safer Together: Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America

“…The impact and quality of these collaborative journalism projects has been registered by their presence in prestigious awards. The U.S. has the earliest instance of an award-winning, cross-newsroom collaboration with ProPublica, a non-profit news organization born in 2008, joining The New York Times and winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 (Carson and Farhall 2018). There is also an increasing presence of Latin American collaborative projects receiving recognition, as mentioned at the opening of this article.…”

“…Nevertheless, technology has brought structural changes that must be considered. As opposed to the "highly competitive and mutually independent" attitude of journalists during the golden era of investigative journalism (Carson andFarhall 2018, 1900), in the networked society, digital journalists are interacting with-if not becoming themselves-technologists to "take advantage of the distinct way that programmers think about technology in terms of the hacker ethic … and to re-interpret this into the language of news" (Lewis and Usher 2013, 604). It is not that investigative journalism lacked a strong public-interest ethics, but that technological changes brought by the digital world are contributing to the creation of hybrid professional cultures (Waisbord 2013) where journalists are embracing the open-source mentality and its pro-social interest (Coleman 2012) in more overt ways than in the past (Graves and Konieczna 2015).…”

“…However, the questions as of what are the main characteristics of these Latin American journalists, and the reasons they are increasingly seeking to participate in this type of enterprises have yet to be answered. Studies focused on investigative journalism in the U.S., Britain, and Australia have found that the industry has incorporated digital tools and collaboration to keep producing high-quality projects despite the lack of resources (Carson and Farhall 2018) and "to increase the impact of their own reporting" Konieczna 2015, 1973). In Latin America, Schmitz Weiss et al (2018) found that news entrepreneurs tied innovation and sustainability to the development of collaborative processes.…”

Research Ethics in Investigative Journalism

“…The benefits of collaborationamong newsrooms locally or transnationally, between universities and newsrooms, among universities with students and experienced journalists working alongsideare well documented (Bacon 2011;Birnbauer 2011;Richards and Josephi 2013;Gearing 2014;Carson and Farhall 2018).…”

Нові Форми Журналістського Розслідування У Xxi Столітті: Найближчі Майбутні Виклики

“…In the last decade of the XXth century, the situation has changed. Under pressure from a range of factors, mainly cultural, political, economic, and technological, and due to the loss of advertisement costs, IJ started to decline [10,1900]. As a result, newspapers had to cut journalism jobs and to close investigative units.…”