Invesgative journalism

There are many examples of popular invesgative journalists today, ranging from Michael Moore to Louis Theroux. In any case the aim of invesgative journalists is to expose what someone, somewhere doesnt want you to publish, because it is in the public interest. However, if you're to be an invesgative journalist you must be carefull to avoid malace in your article. This is most easily done by avoiding investigating anything that you yourself are personally involved in. If you have an interest in a particular organisation or institution and choose to do an expose on them, you could be accused of malice or conflict of interest. There've been many examples of very important invesgative journalism cases broken by newspapers, for example Harry Evans, editor of the Sunday Times, broke the Thalidomide case. Nowadays however, most invesgative journalism is about financial issues, but this is probably due to the many many many financial issues in the world today. Invesgative journalism, especially at Winchester, also focuses on miscarriages of justice, and drawing the attention of society to these. In this instance journalists act as the last hope of the innocent, insofar as if the justice system is corrupt and an innocent person is jailed, they can write to journalists for help. When this happens, the journalist will review the case and send evidence of innocente to the Criminal Case Review Commision (CCRC), which was set up to investigate alleged cases of miscariages of justice. This doesnt necessarily ensure that justice will be done unfortunately. In the most part the case will be kicked back to you. The saddest fact is that the people who maintain their innocence will never be released, because since they say they're innocent, they will not be seen as rehabilitated.