Types of IR

Journalism comes in many forms. Some of the most exciting forms are investigative reporting, but also, through that comes the most boring.

There is Original Investigative Reporting (the exciting) and Interpretive Investigative Reporting and Reporting on Investigations (he boring). Original is when people can go undercover and reveal stories that no one has discovered yet. And though Interpretive and Reporting on Investigations can be thrilling, I feel like most times it just turns into a bunch of number and pie charts that I don’t care to read about.

This is the video on that I think the presentation wanted to show us but wouldn’t load. It is the Associated Press telling viewers how to do watchdog journalism. First of all, I think it is so cool that the organization would come right out and spoon feed the topic to a YouTube audience. Second, the people speaking do a very good job of telling this story of these tunnels and showing how watchdog journalism can help to better our society through stories like these.

When you type in “Investigative reporting” to google, a lot of really neat things come up. I saw some workshops on how to do it an and also this website http://www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org/ . A website for investigative reporting? Really? How great is that?! Every story on there digs deep and gets to the heart of the matter through one of the types of investigative reporting. And to make it even better, many blogs of these reporters are linked through this site, so it is doing a wonderful job of working with the changing technologies.