In the second and third parts of our piece, we discussed the main areas of Ukrainian journalism. Namely, television and online journalism. These parts can be read here and here.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. In the following parts, prominent correspondents will discuss niche areas of journalism: business journalism, which grew in Ukraine alongside the development of the private sector and began examining economic processes from the ground up, and investigative journalism, which flourished amid the transition economy and post-Soviet bureaucratic system, gaining momentum through numerous corruption investigations. Investigative journalism is an extraordinary field of Ukrainian journalism that emerged less than 15 years ago but has managed to develop into a genuine mainstream of the Ukrainian press. Over the past decade, investigative journalism has grown rapidly alongside Ukrainian society and gained increasing influence. While the first investigations were more naive, along the lines of “here, we will show you what is behind this fence – this is an expensive house that does not correspond to the owner’s income,” investigators now work with complex databases and enlist the expertise of financial and legal professionals. The subjects of their work – corrupt officials – have also become more sophisticated and now conceal their schemes in more elaborate ways. Since this type of journalism has never been welcomed by any Ukrainian government, few were willing to finance it. That is why the field actively attracted foreign funding in the form of grants, while corrupt officials constantly accused investigative journalists of being “Western agents.”