Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN: | 9780810163515 0810163519 0810126192 9780810126190
|
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Print version record.
|
Summary: | 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.
|
Other form: | Print version: Kroeger, Brooke, 1949- Undercover reporting. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012
|
Standard no.: | (YBP)7448684
|