Investigative Reporting is the Driving Force in Journalism

The decade from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s was the innocence of many journalists. As many of them remember, the report became increasingly less respectful to politicians, increasingly sustained and questioned since the mid-1960s. Journalists began to stop almost passive behavior and brought real firepower to their occupations. One of the main reasons for survey journalism, which has been increasing rapidly in the 1960s, was that the newspaper was criticizing the established power more and more. Since 1960, news coverage has become increasingly negative.

Investigation news is a kind of news that reporters investigate interesting topics such as serious crime, political corruption, corporate cheating. Investigators can investigate and prepare reports over several months or years. Sometimes practitioners use the term "supervisory report" or "accountability report". Most research journals have traditionally been done by newspapers, cable services and freelance writers. As advertising revenue declines, many traditional news services have been trying to fund research news.

Steve Weinberg, a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri, defines research journalism as "reporting the importance of readers, audiences, or listeners through their initiatives and work products." . At the moment, there are departments at universities that are responsible for teaching research journalism. At the conference, peer-reviewed research journalism research was conducted. British media theorist Hugo de Burgh (2000) pointed out as follows. "The investigative reporter is male or female.His profession is to discover the truth and find errors in every media.The behavior is not that the journalism is legally established and closely related to advocacy, Since it is not limited to targets it is often called to investigate that journalism is clearly different from that of police, lawyers, auditors, and regulators

Survey journalism is designed to reveal the truth about specific topics, people, or events. Survey journalism is based on the basic principles of all news - based on factual validation and accurate presentation, but survey journalists often have to cooperate with noncooperative or stubborn information sources that you do not want to disclose information . Famous research journals such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have revealed the Watergate scandal, which can reverse the main influence of major agencies on public living.