The watchdog role of fact-checkers in different media systems

P Ferracioli, AB Kniess, FPJ Marques - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The article aims to capture the diversity of emerging practices in fact-checking by exploring,
on the one side, journalists' self-perception of the watchdog role they believe to perform and …

Between structures and identities: Newsroom policies, division of labor and journalists' commitment to investigative reporting

P Cancela - Journalism Practice, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the connection between newsroom policies, division of labor and
journalists' willingness to engage in investigative reporting. Based on extensive qualitative …

Identifying investigative pieces: A multi-step method for spotting a blurred journalistic genre

L Wuergler, P Cancela, D Gerber, A Dubied - Journalism Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of investigative journalism by
proposing a multi-step method for identifying investigative pieces, despite the genre's …

How investigative journalists around the world adopt innovative digital practices

J Kunert, J Frech, M Brüggemann, V Lilienthal… - Journalism …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores how investigative journalists around the world adopt innovative digital
practices in their daily work, what challenges they perceive to the adoption of digital …

Disclaiming, Mitigating, and Character Boosting—How Targets of Investigate Journalism Negotiate Guilt, Excuses, Justification, and Morality

M Danielson - Journalism Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article analyses how objects of investigative journalism challenge journalistic authority
and knowledge production from the textual space of their own platforms. Drawing on …

How do investigative journalists initiate their stories? Exploring the investigative ecosystem of Switzerland

L Wuergler, P Cancela - Journalism Practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyses investigative journalism as an ecosystem. It aims to reconstruct the
“food chains” of investigative journalism by identifying the origin of investigative stories …

Debunking war information disorder: A case study in assessing the use of multimedia verification tools

SA Khan, L Dierickx, JG Furuly, HB Vold… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the use of multimedia verification, in particular, computational tools
and Open‐source Intelligence (OSINT) methods, for verifying online multimedia content in …

Toward a Sociology of Democratic Truth-Telling

J Gøtzsche-Astrup - Sociological Theory, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
The erosion of truth-telling is central to discussions of democratic decline. However, these
discussions often gloss over how democratic truth-telling is constituted as a practice. I …

Transnational corporate power, neo-colonialism and investigative journalism: a conversation with Matt Kennard

I Munro, M Boussebaa, C Rhodes - Critical Perspectives on …, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose This viewpoint aims to contribute to understanding corporate power in two key
respects. First, it provides insight into the ways in which transnational corporations continue …

Performing investigative identities: How print journalists establish authority through their texts

L Wuergler, A Dubied - Studies in Communication Sciences, 2023 - hope.uzh.ch
Faced with an increasingly challenging environment, journalists and news organizations are
looking to investigative journalism as a symbolic resource to assert their professionalism …