2. INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters
deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious
corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.
Critical approach.
Important subject .
Own initiative .
Own research .
Own analysis .
Exclusivity .
3. INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Investigative journalism IS NOT
Daily reporting
Leak journalism
Single source reporting
Misuse of information
Paparazzi journalism
Investigative journalism IS
Watchdog journalism
Exposing how laws and
regulations are violated
Holding the powerful
accountable
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6. TEHELKA
Founded by Tarun Tejpal and Anirudha Bahal
Famous for its investigative journalism and Sting operations.
Website- {2000}, Tabloid format newspaper- {2004 }, Weekly magazine-
{2007}
First sting operation – 2000 – Cricket match fixing
Second sting operation – 2001 – Operation west End
On 2013 Tejpal stepped down as the editor- charged of sexual assault of a
woman colleague
2014 – Mathew Samuel became the managing editor of the magazine
10. TARUN TEJPAL
• He was the former editor ofTehelka magazine
• He began his career in the Indian express- then joined India today magazine
then THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS- helped found the rival publication, Outlook, -
he the quit to start tehella.com
• On 20 November 2013, Tejpal was stepping down as editor, after a woman
colleague alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by him. This received
intense public attention and media scrutiny especially because Tejpal and his
magazine had previously been involved in highlighting the issue of sexual
violence in India, including in a special issue on the topic in February of the year
• 2014 supreme court granted him bail.
11. ANIRUDHA BAHAL
• While at Tehelka, Bahal conceived and carried out a sting operation which caught
members of Indian CricketTeam accepting bribes to throw matches in camera.
• It resulted in a series of articles on match fixing in Indian Cricket, which were
eventually published as a book - Fallen Heroes.
• Bahal is also known for his part in Operation West End, another sting operation.
• In 2003, he left Tehelka.
12. WHAT IS MATCH FIXING ?
• In organized sports, match fixing occurs as a match is played to a
completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the
game and often the law.
• There is a variety of reason for this, but the most common is in exchange for
a payoff from gamblers. Players might also intentionally perform poorly to
get an advantage in the future, such as a better draft pick, or an easier
opponent in a playoff. A player might also play poorly to rig a handicap
system.
13. Cricket Match Fixing (2001)
Unfolded the scams taking place in cricket.
With the help of former cricketer, Manoj Prabhakar ,
caught the men behind the scandals using spy cams.
Fallen heroes : the inside story of a nation betrayed
14. FIRST STING OPERATION
• Bahal andTejpal convinced cricketer Manoj Prabhakar to record conversations with his
colleagues, after the South Africa cricket match fixing scandal involving Hansie Cronje in
March 2000.
• Prabhakar and Bahal went around the country and Prabhakar, wearing hidden recording
equipment, attended meetings with important Indian cricket board officials (BCCI) and
players.
• He recorded conversations where they talked about links between players and bookmakers,
matches being thrown in return for money, deliberate run-outs and the names of players
involved.They recorded more than 40 hours of taped conversations, which the Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) used as evidence for its own inquiry.The CBI implicated
• Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja and Ajay Sharma as the cricketers involved.[14] The
documentary Fallen Heroes:The Betrayal of a Nation, which was released in May of the same
year, showed Prabhakar's work and Bahal published his report on Tehelka.com.
16. TEHELKA SPY CAM VIDEOS PART 1
MANOJ PRABHAKAR ASKING QUE TO N.PURI – He feels bad on how games are being
played now. He tells this is not the way to fix things. He had suspicions since 1979.
Toss was fixed in the Calcutta match before hand.
BAHAL AND RAKESH MARIA (POLICE COMMISSIONER MUMBAI )-According to him things
started when Gavasker was the captain .. developed when Kapil Dev became captain
and peaked when Azharudheen was the captain.
CONVO WITH JAYLAND LELE - He tells that the only member in the team whose true
to the cricket ethics is Sachin. He then tells about an incident that took place where
a person (not mentioned) asked him and Anushman to be a part of match fixing
through a call to lose against New Zealand. BUT he was against it and cut the call.
The game went on as it was already been told and Sachin did his best and made the
country enter the finals.
18. TEHELKA JETGATE EXPOSE (2013)
• A Tehelka investigation into Jet Airways exposes how VIPs, politicians and civil
aviation officials abuse and misuse power for free tickets worth crores of rupees.
Aviation industry is one og the fastest growing sector.Billions of dollors have been
invested on this industry or the betterment and to provide good service.
• In 2013 the cbi initiated a large investigation on the dgca( directorate general of
civil aviation)
• 200 officials of DGCA were accused of misusing free tickets
• Tehelka had access to info through internal sources ( jet airways ooficials and dgca
• Further they received copies of info regarding the free tickets and the names of the
involved.
• Jet airways was promised goodies in turn to the free tickets offered to beurocrates
• It takes at least Rs 1 lakh for a couple in New Delhi to fly to London and back in the
class. But for the same amount, Manoj Malviya (IPS officer who was on deputation
commissioner with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security) took his family to 28
the world in the past few years. He reportedly paid only Rs 1 lakh for trips that are
have cost more than Rs 6 crore.
19. CONTD
• He was not the only one involved. For years, top officials of the civil aviation ministry and
the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) as well asVIPs and politicians have been
abusing and misusing their power to enjoy favours from private airlines, the cost of which
runs into crores of rupees And these favours logically make the officials of the regulatory
bodies obliged to return favours to the airlines, for example, in matters such as the
extension of Foreign AircrewTemporary Authorisation
• The Aeronautical Information Circular AIC 02/1978 stipulates that every operator or owner
of an aircraft registered in India shall make available, free of charge, a seat on the aircraft
to an officer of the civil aviation department authorised by the director general to
undertake certain job functions. But this free seats are misused to buy family trips around
the world.
• The most prominent name on the list is Robert Vadra.The millionaire businessman and
husband of Priyanka Gandhi had been upgraded from economy to first class upon
requests from his office at least eight times on the New Delhi-London-New Delhi sector.
The latest instance being in October this year.
20. COMMENTS
“Meanwhile, in India, the BJP-led government has contracted an acute case of snout-in-
trough disease. The sting operation carried out by the excellent website tehelka - what a
difference the internet has made to press freedoms in India! - showed many of the country's
leaders accepting bribes on videotape”
- SALMAN RUSHDIE (2001).
Who said investigative journalism was dead? tehelka.com has invented an effective new
technique. The news portal has exposed the ugly face and grasping hands of corruption in
high places…Now tehelka allows everyone to see what actually goes on in the corridors of
power, to hear talk of buying political access as if it is about buying onions.
- EDITORIAL (2001)
“The tehelka exposé is a positive measure by the Fourth Estate to clean up the corrupt
administrative and political systems of our country… Instead of lampooning the tehelka
team, the government should have expressed its gratitude towards the journalists, who
played a unique role in exposing corruption…Indian politics is no longer the same after the
tehelka exposé.”
- AMAR SINGH (PARTY LEADER)
21. OUR (Divided) SOCIETY
Divided by money
1% vs. 99%
Divided by power
Corporate people
vs.
Average people
