Undercover Reporting : The Truth About Deception / Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kroeger, Brooke, 1949-

Series:

Visions of the American press.

Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalistic ethics--United States--History.

Journalistic ethics.

Journalism--Social aspects--United States--History.

Journalism.

Reporters and reporting--United States--History.

Reporters and reporting.

Investigative reporting--United States--History.

Investigative reporting.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (p. cm.)

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 reportingâ€"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. Together with a companion website that gathers some of the best investigative work of the past century, Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor.

Contents:

Introduction

Reporting slavery

Virtual enslavement

Predators

Hard labor, hard luck, part one

Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair

Hard labor, hard luck, part two

The color factor

Undercover under fire

Sinclair's legatees

Hard time

Crusaders and zealots

Watchdog

Mirage

Turkmenistan and beyond.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780810163515

0810163519

OCLC:

830023849

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access