Written under the sponsorship of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., this new edition of "The Reporter's Handbook" has been thoroughly revised. Now packed with greater detail than the previous edition, this comprehensive source-book examines how to investigate a wide rariety of subjects. It lists the most useful records and documents associated with each topic, explains where to get them and how to use them. It also identifies hundreds of private and government documents and human sources.
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This review is from: The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques (Paperback)
This book reads like a text book- so if you need a quick reference guide to background checks I would recommend buying this one in addition to somehting like Dennis King's - Get the Facts on Anyone. I've just started reading it but so far it's very informative.
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An investigator's bible...,
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This review is from: The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques (Paperback)
The Reporter's Handbook is a guidebook full of suggestions on what to look for when investigating public companies, the police, the courts, education, health care, the list goes on. Weinberg attaches practical advice to the phrase "journalists should look for..." followed by specifics.
For example, in the section on investigation non-profits, he goes over IRS form 990 in detail (the non-profit tax return), putting each line in context and explaining when there's a story in the numbers, and when there isn't. When talking about education, he gives ideas on areas of abuse often overlooked by reporters and then explains how to begin investigation using a documents first approach. The book concludes with a thorough chapter explaining how to put the story together. It's a must have for any journalist who takes their role as watchdog seriously.
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Dense but Detailed,
By Bob Mackie! (left lobe, center brain) - See all my reviews
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So you wanna be a journalist? Well, you'd probably do better just going out for several hours talking to people than reading this book. But it does have some good ideas, it's just hard to get through the damn thing.
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