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Undercover reporting, the truth about deception, Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-470) and index

index present

non fiction

Undercover reporting

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Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill

Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press

the truth about deception

"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

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