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 deception to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Evanston, Ill.
Northwestern University Press
2012, 2012
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| Series: | Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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. 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780810126190 0810126192 |