From Global to Local: Investigative Journalism Changing in Digital Age

Abstract

The data, raw material of information, is crucial in terms of being able to reach a piece of news comprising necessary information of which concealed from the public but must be known for the interest of the public. The use of communication technologies gained a new dimension for the first time in 2010 with Wikileaks documents and subsequent to that with Panama Papers. In this study, investigative journalism has been regarded from a conceptual and historical perspective, and the changing of investigative journalism and its aspect turning from global to local strived to be conveyed with the witness of investigative journalists, especially based on one of the examples of investigative journalism, the Panama Papers.