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  2. Department of Journalism (30% English)
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Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
BYN218 - Investigative Journalism IV. SEMESTER 2 +0 3.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) DOÇ. DR. İZLEM VURAL, FİLİZ YILDIZ
Mode of Delivery Face to face
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Prerequisites There are no prerequisites and no co-requisites for this course
Courses Recomended
Recommended Resources • İnsan Hakları Haberciliği, Bia Yayınları, İstanbul.• Gazeteciliğe Başlarken, Bia Yayınları, İstanbul.• Araştırmacı Gazetecilik, Selda İçin Akçalı, Gazeteciler Cemiyeti Yayını, Ankara.• Araştırmacı Gazetecilik, Seyfettin Turan, UmAg Yayınları.
Work Placement Visiting Ankara Journalists Association and the Journalists Association of Turkey, inviting journalists
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Different definitions of investigative journalism and features that make this type of journalism different from others.
Week - 2 Conditions of the emergence of investigative journalism and evaluation of these conditions.
Week - 3 Discussion of the concepts of public welfare and threshold guardians.
Week - 4 Practices of sensational journalism and different meanings of investigative journalism .
Week - 5 Monopolization, the transformation of this type of journalism via global capital.
Week - 6 Position of investigative journalism within the practices of scandal journalism.
Week - 7 Interview, the proximity of a series of articles with the investigative journalism.
Week - 8 Examples of investigative journalism from the world.
Week - 9 Examples of investigative journalism from Turkey.
Week - 10 The reasons and results of investigative journalism's being devalued.
Week - 11 New media and new types of investigative journalism, the rise of citizen journalism.
Week - 12 case study
Week - 13 case study
Week - 14 final exam

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