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This study deals with the role of investigative journalism inexplaining complex social issues, especially after it became the subject of all talk after the editor of the Washington Post (Bob Wardard and Carl Prestein) revealed the Watergate Scandal in 1973. This study is a descriptive studies, aimed to skip the stage where the previous Arab studies stood in the treatment of new entrances and current issues in the news coverage and benefit the Professionals in the press to address the investigative journalism. This study seeks to know the role of the investigative journalism in correcting mistakes, uncovering corruption and explaining complex social issues. This study uses the content analysis method, relyed on the content analysis as a tool to collect data on the phenomenon studied. The daily newspapers were selected, namely: Alintibaha, Akhirlahza, andAkhbar El yomNewspaper as a field of study. The period of study was determined during the period from September 2017 until the end of December 2018, with the selection of a sample of the three newspapers using the method of the industrial week during the study period. The study showed that the rate of coverage of the three sectors: correction of errors, interpretation of complex social situations, and detection of corruption, wrongdoing, lawlessness or abuse of power was very low on the three newspapers during the period of study only (125), Coverage over the entire year and two months, and the analysis of the place of publication and accompanying titles showed increasing interest rates in this coverage, where the majority of the cover coverage on the front pages by 72%, but did not appear under important titles such as the title The qualitative analysis showed that the coverage of the three sectors can be arranged in terms of the vitality and relative quality of the knowledge they carry according to the following order: correcting errors first, then detecting corruption, secondly, and finally, explaining complex social situations, as recommended by the study The need to pay attention to the investigative journalism, and the need to unload a number of journalists to do this kind of journalism away from the normal routine press, giving more attention to the interpretation and investigation of information and that the editors and informants to free the survey coverage and submission of the The need to keep abreast of the new technological developments in the use of new techniques in the work of the press in general and the coverage of the survey in particular, as well as away from the excitement and exaggeration in the presentation of issues that correct errors or reveal corruption or explain the issues As well as providing responsible press freedom, freedom of information and protection of resources.