Undercover reporting 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 decepti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kroeger, Brooke, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Series:Visions of the American press.
Physical Description:
xx, 496 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
Investigative reporting -- United States -- History.
Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History.
Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Journalistic ethics -- United States -- History.
Online Access:Companion Web site
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.

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