Abstract:
Abstract: More than four decades of Journalism practice in
Bangladesh has documented enormous number of investigative reports
and last three decades have seen several competitions and prizes which
encouraged investigative reporting in the country. Research question
of how investigative journalism is contributing to the democratic
process along with other aspects of development has been explored.
The social responsibility by doing investigative reporting has also been
investigated. Extensive literature survey has been conducted to gauge
and analyze critically the historical as well as contemporary situation
of investigative journalism in the country. The study conducted an
opinion survey among the journalists to understand their present
perception on investigative journalism as well as the practice in the
profession exposing corruption and other anomalies.
Review of recent studies and research so far conducted on investigative
journalism has shown a potential contribution to strengthen
democratic process and social responsibility aspect of the press. How
investigative reporting may contribute to combat social injustice and
establish rule of law in the country has been studied. Exposing
corruption in local and national levels, irregularities and unlawful
activities and corruption in service providing sectors, both government
and nongovernment organizations–have been found analyzing the
contents of investigative reports published in different print medium.
Some of the private television channels in Bangladesh, are taking
challenging stories in special programmes on exposing corruption of
service sectors of both government and nongovernment set-ups.
