BOOKS
Aucoin, James. The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
Benjaminson, Peter and David Anderson.
Investigative Reporting.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.
Chepesiuk, Ronald, et al. Raising Hell:
Straight Talk With Investigative Journalists.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1997.
Cook, Fred J. Maverick:
Fifty Years of Investigative Reporting.
New York: Putnam, 1984.
Cuillier, David. The Art of Access:
Strategies for Acquiring Public Records.
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011.
De Burgh, Hugo. Investigative Journalism:
Context and Practice.
New York: Routledge, 2000.
DeFleur, Margaret H.
Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting.
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997.
Dygert, James H. The Investigative Journalist:
Folk Heroes of a New Era.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
Ettema, James S. and Theodore Glasser.
Custodians of Conscience:
Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. Muckraking:
Three Landmark Articles.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Gaines, William. Investigative Journalism:
Proven Strategies for Reporting the Story.
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008.
—-. Investigative Reporting for Print and Broadcast.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1994.
Greenwald, Marilyn and Joseph Bernt, eds.
The Big Chill:
Investigative Reporting in the Current Media Environment.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.
Houston, Brant, ed.
The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook. 5th edition.
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.
Levine, Stephen and Barbara T. Newcombe.
Paper Trails: A Guide to Public Records in California.
San Francisco: Center for Investigative Reporting.
Sacramento: California Newspaper Publishers Association, 1996.
Mollenhoff, Clark R. Investigative Reporting:
From Courthouse to White House.
New York: Macmillan, 1981.
Northmore, David. Lifting the Lid:
A Guide to Investigative Research.
London: Cassell Academic, 1996.
Patterson, Margaret Jones. Behind the Lines:
Case Studies in Investigative Reporting.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Pilger, John. Tell Me No Lies:
Investigative Journalism that Changed the World.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005.
Protess, David L. The Journalism of Outrage:
Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America.
New York: Guilford Press, 1991.
Serrin, Judith and William Serrin. Muckraking:
The Journalism that Changed America.
New York: New Press, 2002.
Shapiro, Bruce. Shaking the Foundations:
200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003.
Spark, David. Investigative Reporting: A Study in Technique.
Oxford: Focal Press, 1999.
Tichi, Cecelia. Exposes and Excess:
Muckraking in America, 1900/2000.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Ullmann, John. Investigative Reporting:
Advanced Methods and Techniques.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Weinberg, Steve. Telling the Untold Story:
How Investigative Reports are Changing the Craft of Biography.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1992.
Weinberg, Steve and Jan Colbert, eds.
The Investigative Journalist’s Morgue:
An Index to Thousands of Stories and Series from the Files of IRE.
Columbia, MO: IRE, 1986.
Weir, David and Dan Noyes. Raising Hell:
How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1983.
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