Undercover Reporting [[electronic resource] ] : The Truth About Deception / / Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill

• Autore: Kroeger Brooke <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Evanston, Ill., : Northwestern University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (p. cm.)
• Disciplina: 070.430973
• Soggetto topico: Journalistic ethics - United States - History; Journalism - Social aspects - United States - History; Reporters and reporting - United States - History; Investigative reporting - United States - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Undercover Reporting
• ISBN: 0-8101-6351-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910213856603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Visions of the American press.