Undercover reporting
Subtitle: the truth about deception
By: Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill
Series: Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press; Visions of the American press
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780810126190
Subjects: Reporters and reporting; Investigative reporting; Journalism; Journalistic ethics; History
Description: "In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that undercover work is not a separate world, but rather it embodies a central discipline of good reporting--the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public's attention. Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reporting slavery; title: Virtual enslavement; title: Predators; title: Hard labor, hard luck, part one; title: Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair; title: Hard labor, hard luck, part two; title: The color factor; title: Undercover under fire; title: Sinclair's legatees; title: Hard time; title: Crusaders and zealots; title: Watchdog; title: Mirage; title: Turkmenistan and beyond.