Foreword (Prof Bruce Grundy)
1. Marking the territory
Research for journalists and writers (David McKnight)
A step-by-step guide to chasing the news
Profiling a life
Unearthing the family
Hidden jewels or fool's gold: evaluating your information
2. Picking up the scent
Friends and foes
Sifting documentary sources (Anna Cater)
Interviewing (Roger Patching)
Working contacts: finding and keeping reliable sources (Janine
Little)
Community and cultural institutions
Events
Regional reporting (Susan Hetherington)
Non-profit organisations
Universities, research institutes, think tanks
3. Digging up the business bones
Companies
4. Sniffing the legal breeze
Legal information
Courts and lawyers
5. Tracking down government resources
Parliament and government
Politicians, parliament
Untangling the political trail
Gove
Christine Fogg has over ten years experience teaching research and information retrieval methods, as well as being a trained journalist. She has taught research methods to journalism students at the University of Sydney.
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