Undercover reporting : the truth about deception / Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill.

9780810126190 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810126192 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Evanston, Ill. : Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern University Press, 2012.

English

xx, 496 p. ; 21 cm.

PN4888.I56 K76 2012

070.430973

"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."--p. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-470) and index.

Visions of the American press.

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