Muckraker websites (American and European examples)

• Authors: Wojciech Adamczyk

Title variants

Muckraker websites (American and European examples)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The goal of the article is to compare contemporary websites used by investigative reporters for organising their inquiries and propagating their outcomes. To achieve that goal, I compare the experiences of American and European muckrakers in conducting investigative activities through websites. I analysed 10 such projects in total, 3 from the USA and 7 from Europe. The discussed criteria include the modes of financing, the size of annual budgets, the modes of operation, and HR policies.

Keywords

EN

investigative reporters; muckrakers; Internet

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 5-22

Dates

published

2018-02-08

Contributors

author

Wojciech Adamczyk

• Department of Journalism, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.43.01