Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780810126190 |
| State | Published - 2012 |
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Undercover reporting : The truth about deception. / Kroeger, Brooke.
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