Undercover Reporting

by Kroeger, Brooke; Hamill, Pete

• ISBN13: 9780810126190
• ISBN10: 0810126192
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-31
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

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 reportingthe 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.

Author Biography

Brooke Kroeger, a professor of journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, is also the author of Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist; Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst; and Passing: When People Can't be Who they are. Pete Hamill is a journalist, novelist, and essayist. The author of more than twenty books, he is the winner of the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the Louis Auchincloss Prize from the Museum of the City of New York. He is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 3
Reporting Slavery	p. 15
Virtual Enslavement	p. 31
Predators	p. 45
Hard Labor, Hard Luck, Part One	p. 57
Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair	p. 77
Hard Labor, Hard Luck, Part Two	p. 93
The Color Factor	p. 103
Undercover Under Fire	p. 135
Sinclair's Legatees	p. 147
Hard Time	p. 171
Crusaders and Zealots	p. 209
Watchdog	p. 233
Mirage	p. 257
Turkmenistan and Beyond	p. 281
Notes	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 409
Index	p. 471
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