Professional Programme
Investigative Journalism
The craft is unglamorous. It is the company filing that does not add up, the source who will only meet once, and the editor asking whether you can prove the sentence you just wrote.
- Duration
- 12 months · full-time
- Mode
- Valletta, with field work
- Intake
- September
- Fee
- €5,400 total
What you will be able to do
- Read a company registry, a court file and a budget line and know what is missing
- Cultivate a source and keep them safe
- Structure an investigation so each finding rests on a document
- Write a story that a lawyer cannot unpick
- Work to a publication's standards under deadline
Modules
| Term 1 | Documents Registries, FOI requests, court records, procurement data. |
| Term 1 | Sources Interviews, whistleblowers, consent, risk. |
| Term 2 | Method Hypothesis, records of evidence, verification, note discipline. |
| Term 2 | Law and ethics Defamation, privacy, the public interest defence. |
| Term 3 | The investigation A single story taken from tip to publication with an editor. |
Aldermere awards a certificate of completion for this programme. It is not a degree and carries no accreditation from a national higher-education authority.