Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Brooke Kroeger is an associate professor and current chair of the Department of Journalism at New York University, and the author of Passing: When People Cant Be Who They Are; Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst; and Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter Feminist.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Name_of_Foreword_Writer
Preface
One
Introduction
Two
Reporting Slavery
Three
Virtual Enslavement
Four
Predators
Five
Hard Labor, Hard Luck, Part I
Six
Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair
Seven
Hard Labor, Hard Luck, Part II
Eight
The Color Factor
Nine
Undercover Under Fire
Ten
Sinclairs Legatees
Eleven
Hard Time
Twelve
Crusaders and Zealots
Thirteen
Watchdog
Fourteen
Mirage
Fifteen
Turkmenistan and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index