This important book defines what investigative reporting is and what qualities it requires. Drawing on the experience of many well-known journalists in the field, the author identifies the skills, common factors and special circumstances involved in a wide variety of investigations. It examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. It also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows real life examples such as the Cook Report formula, the Jonathan Aitken investigation and the Birmingham Six story. David Spark, himself a freelance writer of wide experience, examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. He also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows investigators at work in two classic inquiries: · The mysterious weekend spent in Paris by Jonathan Aitken, then Minister of Defence Procurement · The career of masterspy Kim Philby Investigative Reporting looks at such fields for inquiry as company frauds (including those of Robert Maxwell), consumer complaints, crime, police malpractice, the intelligence services, local government and corruption in Parliament and in overseas and international bodies. The author believes that the conclusions that emerge from this far-reaching survey are of value not only in investigative journalism, but to practitioners in all branches of reporting. The most comprehensive book on investigative journalism Learn first hand from real-life examples Get tips on writing style and where to find ideas

Investigative Reporting (Journalism Media Manual,)

Politics & Social Sciences

SPARK, DAVID

Social Sciences

Routledge

Trade shows and conferences are surreal environments of compressed time and space. Potential customers, whose lifetime value could mean millions to your business, are walking right past you. In Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows you’ll learn what it takes to stop those people, engage with them, and quickly qualify them. You’ll also discover what it takes to motivate your employees to work hard every minute the trade show floor is open. It costs a fortune to attend a trade show. With all the sponsorship, preparation, and travel fees involved, companies spend as much as $5,000 to $35,000 an hour to exhibit on a trade show floor. Still, with all that preparation and money, very few companies take the time to determine how they’re going to interact with complete strangers. With so much riding on person-to-person selling, especially at trade shows, can your business afford not to learn the techniques in Three Feet from Seven Figures?

Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows

Business & Money

Powers, Joy

Marketing & Sales

Spark Media Solutions

Given current behavior in search, social, and online traffic, about a quarter of a company’s search and social marketing budget should be spent on video. But while companies know they need to produce video for their marketing efforts, their funding appears to not be commensurate with online trends.In Watch This! The Definitive Reference Guide to Video Marketing, all B2B marketers who think they’re falling short with their video marketing efforts will quickly realize they’re not alone. Presented in a highly-digestible format, this book offers up hundreds of “how to” tips, and presents research on the different approaches various B2B companies are utilizing in their online videos.

Watch This!: The Definitive Reference Guide to Video Marketing

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This important book defines what investigative reporting is and what qualities it requires. Drawing on the experience of many well-known journalists in the field, the author identifies the skills, common factors and special circumstances involved in a wide variety of investigations. It examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. It also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows real life examples such as the Cook Report formula, the Jonathan Aitken investigation and the Birmingham Six story. David Spark, himself a freelance writer of wide experience, examines how opportunities for investigations can be found and pursued, how informants can be persuaded to yield needed information and how and where this information can be checked. He also stresses the dangers and legal constraints that have to be contended with and shows investigators at work in two classic inquiries: · The mysterious weekend spent in Paris by Jonathan Aitken, then Minister of Defence Procurement · The career of masterspy Kim Philby Investigative Reporting looks at such fields for inquiry as company frauds (including those of Robert Maxwell), consumer complaints, crime, police malpractice, the intelligence services, local government and corruption in Parliament and in overseas and international bodies. The author believes that the conclusions that emerge from this far-reaching survey are of value not only in investigative journalism, but to practitioners in all branches of reporting.

Investigative Reporting: A study in technique

This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers: What is news? How the modern newsroom operates How facts are gathered and checked The reporter and picture ideas District reporting Techniques of interviewing News writing and newspaper language How to summarize Reporting the courts Political and industrial reporting Aspects of sportswriting Feature writing and arts reviewing The book also includes an important new chapter on the place of local government in newspaper coverage and it examines a newspaper's internal structure and the reporter's daily work in the light of the latest technology. This classic textbook is a must for all journalism and media courses and offers the ideal career introduction for the young journalist.

Practical Newspaper Reporting (Music Technology Series)

Harris, Geoffrey