8    Ways of finding out

The media have no choice but to ask questions of the government of the day or the state of the moment, not because they are special, not because they are better, not because they are arrogant, not because they are self-appointed, but because if they do not do it, nobody else will. (John Tusa, former Managing Director of the BBC World Service)

We have established that the basic skill of journalism is reporting – collecting and giving the facts – and that their news value consists in the facts being of public interest and sometimes in the public interest. Reporters have to identify the information that has news value, locate reliable sources of information, gather accurate (verified) information and communicate it accurately, ...

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