cara untuk melakukan investigasi terhadap kejadian/ peristiwa yang ada di sekitar

1. Pengertian
“Investigative Reporting”
(laporan investigatif)
 Peliputan yang:
 Menguak sesuatu yang ingin
disembunyikan oleh seseorang
 Menerangkan penyebab masalah
kompleks dengan maksud untuk mencari
keberanan
 Berbicara kebenaran kepada penguasa
 Reporter yang bagus adalah reporter
investigative

2. Investigative reporting skills
 Developing sources, on and off the record
 Studying documents and records
 Understanding the workings of government
and business
 Keeping good files
 Confrontation interviewing
 Computer analysis of data
 Verification of what you learn

3. Contoh:
good investigative reporting
 Watergate scandal,Penyelundupan
BBM
 Mirage Bar in Chicago
 Miami projects:
 “Crime and No Punishment” – poor justice
 “What Went Wrong” – Hurricane Andrew
 Miami election
 Recent: Secret prisons and spying on
citizens

4. Investigative ethics
 Honor your promises of anonymity
 Give your targets a fair opportunity to
respond to what you have found
 Write only what can be supported by
evidence
 Reveal your methods
 Don’t hype trivial investigations

5. Problems for
international journalists
 American reporters have it easy
 Many international reporters face:
 Violence against them
 Repressive laws
 Government secrecy of records
 Poor salaries
 Corruption

6. You’re not alone -- IRE
 Investigative Reporters & Editors
 Organized in 1975 with the murder of Don
Bolles in Phoenix
 Today more than 5,000 members
 Growing number of international members
 World’s leading organization for training of
professionals
 Reporters helping reporters!

7. IRE website
www.ire.org

8. IRE books and materials
 “IRE Journal” and
“Uplink”
 Books:
 Investigative Reporter’s
Handbook
 Beat Books
 Newsroom Math
 Tipsheets and stories
 IRE conference tapes

9. Some IRE books

10. Global Investigative Journalism
 Four-day conference
held in Amsterdam in
October
 About 500 reporters
from Europe, Africa,
Asia, and the Americas
 Discussed story ideas,
techniques and
problems
 GLOBAL-L email list
 Next conference:
Toronto

11. Precision journalism
 CAR: Computer-assisted reporting
 Use of software and statistics to
analyze government data
 Software: Spreadsheets, database
programs, computer mapping
 Do stories that otherwise would be
impossible
 No public records? Create your own!

12. Demo: Indonesian statistics

13. National Institute of
Computer-Assisted Reporting
www.nicar.org

14. Questions?