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Prison scandals, terrorism, corporate fraud, election rigging---most likely you have heard something of the sort in the last ten minutes. But what is truth and what is part of the great "washout" of biased reporting? A celebration of lucid investigative reporting, selected by titan of the craft John Pilger, could come at no better moment. Pilger's book travels through contemporary history, from war correspondent Martha Gelhorn's wrenching 1945 account...

The story of the investigation of the Watergate break-in by two Washington Post reporters that drove a U.S. president from office.

In this episode, investigative journalists Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster explore the debate between the animal agricultural industry and the animal rights movement. Follow undercover investigators as they expose abuse and cruelty to animals on factory farms.

"Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting. In immersion reporting--a literary cousin to ethnography, travel writing, and memoir--the...

Journalists Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster explore the synthetic drug craze in America and the military. Van Zeller participates in an undercover "buy bust," operation.

A collection of interviews in which journalists responsible for revealing major political scandals involving the White House explore how investigative journalism has influenced American history and politics.

The Sun Never Sets is a film about the Rio Grande Sun, published in Española, New Mexico, and considered one of the best weekly newspapers in the country. Known for its integrity and award winning, investigative reporting, the Sun consistently attracts young, dedicated journalists. The paper broke the story that its own rural community had the highest per capita heroin overdose rate in the country. It has led the fight for open records and open...

William de Worde begins the first newspaper on Discworld and discovers investigative journalism.

Imagine a future of unparalleled convenience. A powerful retailer, The Store, can deliver anything to your door, anticipating the needs and desires you didn't even know you had. Most people are fine with that, but not Jacob and Megan Brandeis. New York writers whose livelihood is on the brink of extinction, Jacob and Megan are going undercover to dig up The Store's secrets in a book that could change the entire American way of life -- or put an end...

Examines the investigative reporting of journalists that exposed corporate, labor, and political corruption in the 20th century.