Quality vs. quantity: how to do TV consumer investigative reporting with small budgets and staffs

Article Abstract:

Methods are presented for obtaining information on consumer complaint cases with minimum investments in time and work hours, as used by a local television affiliate. These include a telephone tip line, follow-ups on previously aired stories, and dividing a single story into two parts, with one focusing on resolution and the second focusing on research and prevention.

Planning, Investigations, Television broadcasting of news, Television news, Consumer complaints

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Big hurdles: Investigative lessons for small staffs: 'Tell them you're not going to back down'

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The cases of some doctors are reported who were found to be drunken at hospital at the time of attending patients on emergency. The board used to suspend the doctor's medical license and ordered to get treatment but administrative law judges interfere it and reinstated the doctor's license but required them to undergo treatment if they want to start practice again.

Public affairs, Ethics, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Physicians, Ethical aspects, Medical ethics

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Working within limits: lessons on small-market investigative journalism

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Issues discussed concern techniques for small news organizations to handle large and complicated stories, focusing on the newspaper coverage of a large number of suspicious deaths in Vermillion County Hospital in 1995. Topics addressed include investigations when facts are unclear, researching public records, and finding story angles.

Usage, Hospitals, Public records, Media coverage, Journalism

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