YouTube: Channel 4's critically acclaimed series Unreported World tells the stories much of the mainstream media ignore. Watch them on 4OD or the above Egypt's Rubbish People.

YouTube: Scientist Hans Rosling discusses his Gapminder data programme at a TED lecture in 2005. The data he has collated expels myths such as the AIDS epidemic in Africa and poverty in the so-called developing world. By Rosling's rationale, data journalism is the future for responsible journalism and his findings imply the mass media has been fueling myths for decades.

YouTube: War reporter and New Journalism pioneer Michael Herr talks about the brutalities and, bizarrely, the "pleasure" of combat.

YouTube: From The Guardian,  journalist Nick Davies has been campaigning for the News of the World phone hacking journalists to be prosecuted for invasion of privacy and held to account for breaching the journalist's code of ethics. The scandal has put the spotlight on the culture of News International, the NoW's parent organisation owned by Rupert Murdoch, and the Press Complaints Commission described by Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger as having "no teeth" when assessing the damage, or lack of it, done by the phone hackers.

YouTube: Described as "John Pilger with laughs", comedian and investigative journalist Mark Thomas talks about the UK arms trade.

YouTube: Veteran journalist John Pilger addresses a socialist audience in San Francisco in 2009. How the people of the world are under a great big public relations illusion with the election of President Obama and his rhetoric of change and peace make for unsettling viewing.

YouTube: Louis Theroux is one journalist who is not afraid to tackle the uncomfortable issues. From his bizarre and often hilarious  Weird Weekends to Louis Theroux meets.....  he captures human stories about major issues. Here he travels to Israel to meet Ultra Zionists who demand Palestinians be removed from "their" land. 

YouTube: Journalist Tazeen Ahmed goes undercover in hospitals in Britain. Hot on the news agenda, Dispatches tackle this issue as the coalition government plans to restructure, but some say privatise, the NHS. 

YouTube: Ten O'clock Live frontman and cynic Charlie Brooker deconstructs the news in his series Newswipe,  a startling expose of the fear gauge cranked up by journalists and the general nonsense many journalists and news organisations pedal as fact straight to your brain!