Investigative Journalism in a Networked Age examines the enduring importance of investigative journalism through a wide-ranging collection of studies exploring changing newsroom practices, the influence of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, and the evolving challenges of contemporary accountability reporting.

The book addresses disinformation, regulatory constraints, collaboration models, and the growing role of non-journalistic actors in environmental investigations, security challenges, and the opportunities and risks associated with big data and AI-driven journalism. Drawing on diverse international case studies, the book provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how newsroom transformations, cross-border collaborations, accountability practices, and technology are reshaping investigative journalism in an increasingly interconnected world. Through its comparative and global perspective, it highlights investigative journalism's continuing role in exposing wrongdoing, holding power to account, and strengthening democratic governance. Essential reading for scholars, students, journalists, and policymakers, the volume provides a nuanced understanding of the forces shaping the future of investigative reporting and reaffirms its vital contribution to democracy, transparency, and public accountability.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Journalism Practice.

Dr Carolyne M. Lunga is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Portsmouth. She is Associate Professor at University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) in Qatar. Previously she taught global journalism, international news, reporting conflict, journalism ethics, and humanitarian communication at City St Georges, University of London. She began her career as a journalist writing across economic, community, entertainment and sports news. Her research is on collaborative investigative journalism, online journalism and journalism ethics. Carolyne is a board member of Journalism Practice and AEJMC’s Newspaper Journal, a Fellow of the Advance Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (UK), external examiner for the MA International Journalism- Digital Media at the University of Salford (UK) and Director of Studies, PhD Advisor and Supervisor at the University of Wales Trinity St David (UWTSD) (UK). She is the founder of the Journalism and Generative AI cluster and is currently leading a Global Journalism and artificial intelligence book to be published by Bloomsbury.

Prof Maria Konow-Lund is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University. She began her career as a journalist and received several awards for her work. As a reporter, she worked on investigative journalism projects for both commercial television and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Konow-Lund served for six years on the board of the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Journalism (SKUP) and was a member of the board of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2008. She has served as head of SKUP’s master’s course in investigative journalism and, more recently, has participated as an academic in an Erasmus+ project on cross-border investigative journalism for master’s students. From 2017 to 2019, Konow-Lund was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at JOMEC, Cardiff University, where she conducted a research project focusing, among other areas, on investigative journalism and innovation.

Dr Paul Lashmar is an Emeritus Fellow in Journalism at City St Georges, University of London and is a former Head of the Department (2019-2021). He has been an investigative journalist on the staff of The Observer, Granada TV’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. Since 2020 he has been writing about slavery and reparations mostly for The Observer and the Conversation. His other specialist areas include the media and journalism, investigative journalism, propaganda, intelligence agencies and historic organised crime. He has been an journalism academic since 2001. He is the author of eight books. His latest is: Drax of Drax Hall, How the landed gentry got rich (and stayed rich) from slavery and sugar (Pluto 2025). Forthcoming: (with James Oliver and Nicholas Gilby) The Department of Truth, a History of the Foreign Office’s secret cold war propaganda operations (May 27) London: Monotype.

Dr Gerry Lanosga is associate professor and director of the Journalism Unit in The Media School at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, USA). His research and teaching revolve around the profession of journalism. In particular, his interests include the history of journalism as a profession, prize culture in journalism, and journalism’s intersections with legal and political infrastructures through investigative reporting and the use of freedom of information laws. His work has been published in Digital Journalism, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, American Journalism, and Journalism History, among other venues. Lanosga completed his Ph.D. in 2010 at Indiana. Previously, he spent nearly two decades as a print and broadcast journalist, winning numerous state, regional and national honors, including the duPont-Columbia award, the George Foster Peabody award, Sigma Delta Chi’s public service award, and the Freedom of Information medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors.