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UNINA9910213856603321 |
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Autore |
Kroeger Brooke <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Undercover Reporting [[electronic resource] ] : The Truth About Deception / / Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill |
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Evanston, Ill., : Northwestern University Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (p. cm.) |
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Collana |
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Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press |
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Soggetti |
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Journalistic ethics - United States - History |
Journalism - Social aspects - United States - History |
Reporters and reporting - United States - History |
Investigative reporting - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 reportingâ€"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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