Undercover Reporting: The Truth about Deception

By Brooke Kroeger

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810126192
• ISBN13: 9780810126190
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"