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Investigative journalism is when a reporter investigates and focuses on a single topic of interest such as crimes, scandals, political corruptions and corporate wrongdoinggs. Investigative journalism make worth-while contribution to society by drawing attention to failures within society's systems of regulation and to the ways in which those systems can be circumvented by the rich, the powerful and the corrupt (Burgh, 2008). But in Malaysia, the freedom of press or 'the fourth estate' merely existed as most of the media outlets are under strict control of the ruling party. However, some dare-devils braved themselves to expose some sizzling stories. The second challenge in being a watchdog in Malaysia is the difficulty in getting detailed information to support your points as officials here are so afraid in exposing information to the media outlets be it positive or negative data and when nothing much can be retrived from the officials, journalists tend to dig inform...

When reporting for a global audience, the biggest challenge is to report what interest your audience. The largest challenge here is that global audience means the people who read your news could be from anywhere of the globe and here is where proximity matters. When the scope of audience is so broad, it is very difficult to produce a news that fits everyone as one men's meat is another men's poison. Lets take the former Hurricane-turned-Tropical storm Harvey that was catastrophic and has caused damage to tens of thousands of people in Texas. It was a havoc for people who is affected especially for Americans but it has nothing directly to do with Malaysians other than being symphathy. The nearer the audience to the incident place, the more impact it has towards them. Another challenge when reporting for global audience is the issue of currency. A particular topic might be in trend for this country but it might not be the same in another country at the same time. For instance, ...