A structured return to the 'Fourth Estate': interviews and inquiry that challenge entrenched authorities' 'knowledge'

Title: A structured return to the 'Fourth Estate': interviews and inquiry that challenge entrenched authorities' 'knowledge'
Creator: Bowman, Leo; McIlwaine, Stephen
Relation: Australian Journalism Review Vol. 26, Issue 1, p. 121-131
Relation: http://www.jea.org.au/journal.htm
Publisher: Journalism Education Association of Australia (JEA)
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2004
Description: Contemporary debates on the role of journalism in society are continuing the tradition of downplaying the role of proactive journalism - generally situated under the catchphrase of the Fourth Estate - in public policy making. This paper puts the case for the retention of a notion of a proactive form of journalism which can be broadly described as "investigative ", because it is important to the public policy process in modern democracies. It argues that critiques that downplay the potential of this form of journalism are flawed and overly deterministic. Finally. it seeks to illustrate how journalists can proactively inquire in ways that are relevant to the lives ofpeople in a range of settings, and that question elite sources in the interests ofthose people.
Subject: journalism; policy making; Fourth Estate; investigation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34755
Identifier: uon:3685
Identifier: ISSN:0810-2686
Language: eng
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