Since the 1980s, investigative journalism has undergone
startling development in South America, where repressive regimes
have long relegated such reporting to marginal publications or
underground outlets. "Watchdog Journalism in South America"
explores the rise of critical journalism in four countries:
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Drawing upon interviews with
journalists and editors and analyzing selected news stories from
each country, Silvio Waisbord offers a unique look at the
significant differences between critical reporting in developing
democracies and that already in place in the United States and
European democracies.
As Waisbord demonstrates, critical reporting in South America
can be better understood as watchdog journalism than as
investigative reporting as understood in the tradition of
Anglo-American journalism. Examining the historical absence of a
muckraking press, he argues that watchdog journalism represents new
political and media dynamics and discusses the emergence of a new
journalistic culture and its contributions to the quality of
democracy and public debates about morality, truth, and
accountability.
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