Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception
- ISBN-10
- 0810163519
- ISBN-13
- 9780810163515
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-08-31
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Author
- Brooke Kroeger
Description
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.
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