In this Book
- Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Medill Visions Of The American Press
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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. 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.
Table of Contents
- One: Introduction
- pp. 3-14
- Two: Reporting Slavery
- pp. 15-30
- Three: Virtual Enslavement
- pp. 31-44
- Four: Predators
- pp. 45-56
- Seven: Hard Labor, Hard Luck, Part Two
- pp. 93-102
- Eight: The Color Factor
- pp. 103-134
- Nine: Undercover Under Fire
- pp. 135-146
- Ten: Sinclair’s Legatees
- pp. 147-170
- Eleven: Hard Time
- pp. 171-208
- Twelve: Crusaders and Zealots
- pp. 209-232
- Thirteen: Watchdog
- pp. 233-256
- Fourteen: Mirage
- pp. 257-280
- Fifteen: Turkmenistan and Beyond
- pp. 281-296
- Bibliography
- pp. 409-470