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How I did it

At home with Pete Doherty: how I got access to the troubled star

14 August 2008

This month, Loaded offered a Hello!-style photo shoot inside the home of the famously shy and troubled Pete Doherty. Senior staff writer Jeff Maysh reveals how he opened the doors to Casa Doherty

My scoop opened floodgates to a tide of angry readers

7 August 2008

Reporter Jon Welch tells Méabh Ritchie the story behind his scoop on Government plans to flood the Norfolk Broads. The story was highly commended for the scoop of the year award in the Press Gazette Regional Press Awards

The tribulations of covering Entwistle murder trial from US

31 July 2008

Chief reporter Debbie Lockett found herself thrown into the deep end when she was sent to the US to cover the murder trial of Neil Entwistle. Here she reveals how her experience was rewarded with a world exclusive

How I called full-time on football talent scout swindle

24 July 2008

BBC 5 Live's Gavin Lee led an undercover investigation of fake football scouts who take money from thousands of Nigerian teenagers under the pretence that they would play for English clubs. Lee tells Méabh Ritchie how he caught one ...

Chickens come home to roost on an RSPCA-approved farm

17 July 2008

Five News' crime correspondent Jason Farrell recently made a series of reports which forced the RSPCA's chief executive Mark Watts to review its Freedom Food scheme. He tells Méabh Ritchie the story

How I lap danced my way to exposé of city strip-club boss

10 July 2008

Naomi Harris recently received Press Gazette’s Regional Young Journalist of the Year award for her work at Exeter’s Express and Echo. One of her award-winning scoops involved going undercover as a lap dancer to expose the owner of ...

'He fired twice, he clearly wanted us to get out - but we didn't'

3 July 2008

ITV correspondent Chris Rogers describes how he managed to gain access to Palestinian child prisoners in the West Bank and Israeli military courts

Teaching Ken Livingstone a lesson when it comes to kids' education

26 June 2008

?Kevin Quinn, editor of the Southwark News, recounts the origins of a newspaper campaign that helped secure a new secondary school for fed-up youngsters living in east London

My battle with the US military to put distraught soldiers on film

19 June 2008

Filmmaker Dominic Di-Natale was given clearance by the US?military to cover post-traumatic stress among troops, but the struggle to produce the report was by no means over…

Moors killer scoop that taught me a lesson about dodgy dealing

29 May 2008

Former Daily Express sub-editor Robin McGibbon describes how he negotiated a bidding war between The Sun and the Mirror over the first picture of Moors Murderer Ian Brady in 20 years

Award-winning campaign that galvanised countryside alliance

28 May 2008
The scepticism that rewrote a (false) chapter of British history

15 May 2008
How I did it: reporter Sean Woods reveals how he bagged eye witness report of the Rhys Jones murder

14 May 2008
'We decided we should confront Ken and see what happened'

6 May 2008
My fight to keep Dennis's killer line in Times' finished article

21 April 2008
The long road to an interview with the leader of Hamas

16 April 2008
Newspaper's suite victory puts an end to deadly sofa imports

3 April 2008
‘It became clear – we were stood in a dog-fighting factory’

13 March 2008
How our News Letter story led to Ian Paisley's resignation

7 March 2008
‘The services were scraping the barrel to find enough troops’

29 February 2008
I went undercover to expose fashion’s dark secret...

25 February 2008
Friendly fire – ‘We debated every ramification of the story’

14 February 2008
Lorry drivers help BBC reporter put stowaways in the picture

7 February 2008
Frontline assignment was my debut for multiskilling

29 January 2008
Going it alone to expose scandal of Africa's malaria drugs racket

18 January 2008
‘Most original investigations are rubbished before they break through’

18 January 2008
Digging deep to break the story that China didn’t want to surface

18 December 2007
‘I work too much, but it’s been worth every second’

12 December 2007
Tip-off led to our child slave-labour shame story

27 November 2007
Infiltrating the darker side of virtual world Second Life

19 November 2007
We set the record straight for children’s home staff

14 November 2007
How I did it: The niche magazine that broke 'a story in a million'

7 November 2007
How I did it: ‘Here we were, taking risks… but no one knew we were here’

31 October 2007
Undercover: minimising the risk to staff and contacts

24 October 2007
Jeff Randall: Uniquely in the right place for Grade’s move to ITV

17 October 2007
Mark Austin: 'Everyone feared being seen with a Western journalist'

10 October 2007
Shamed cop caught out by good old-fashioned journalism

1 October 2007
Philby scoop was won by feminine candour

24 September 2007
Tracing the parents of the Stockwell tube shooting

17 September 2007

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