Undercover Reporting : The Truth About Deception

Brooke Kroeger, Brooke Kroeger

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780810126190
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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

• Contents
• Foreword by Pete Hamill
• Preface
• One. Introduction
• Two. Reporting Slavery
• Three. Virtual Enslavement
• Four. Predators
• Five. Hard Labor, Hard Luck, Part One
• Six. Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair
• Seven. Hard Labor, Hard Luck, Part Two
• Eight. The Color Factor
• Nine. Undercover Under Fire
• Ten. Sinclair’s Legatees
• Eleven. Hard Time
• Twelve. Crusaders and Zealots
• Thirteen. Watchdog
• Fourteen. Mirage
• Fifteen. Turkmenistan and Beyond
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index