| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press |
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Visions of the American press.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Journalistic ethics -- United States -- History.
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Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History.
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Investigative reporting -- United States -- History.
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Investigative reporting. (OCoLC)fst00978154
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Journalism -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00984087
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Journalistic ethics. (OCoLC)fst00984185
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Reporters and reporting. (OCoLC)fst01094906
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kroeger, Brooke, 1949- Undercover reporting. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011048189 |
| ISBN |
9780810163515 (electronic bk.) |
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0810163519 (electronic bk.) |
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0810126192 |
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9780810126190 |
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