For the most part, journalists do not set the news agenda. Instead, they take the information they have been given by weighing its significance checking its accuracy and putting it in context. The news reporter’s job is to confirm the facts of the story, make sense of them and to put them together in a coherent report. Investigative reporting, however, does not just report the information that has been given out by others – “whether it is government, political parties, companies or advocacy groups. It is reporting that relies on the journalist’s own enterprise and initiative. Investigative reporting means journalists go beyond what they have seen and what has been said to unearth more facts and to provide something new and previously unknown”. [1 image, 1 links, 1 quotation, 12 words]
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