Undercover reporting : the truth about deception / Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill.
Kroeger, Brooke, 1949-
2012
PN4888.I56 K76 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Undercover reporting : the truth about deception / Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill.
Author Kroeger, Brooke, 1949-
ISBN 9780810126190 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810126192 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Evanston, Ill. : Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description xx, 496 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number PN4888.I56 K76 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 070.430973
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 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-470) and index.
Series Visions of the American press.
Linked Resources Companion Web site
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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.

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