Undercover Reporting Deception And Betrayal In Journalism

Author : Denis Muller,Andrea Carson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000826951

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Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism by Denis Muller,Andrea Carson Pdf

This book discusses undercover reporting, betrayal and deception in journalism, addressing the ethical issues encountered by professionals when deception is involved and providing an explanation of how high-profile cases have developed. Carson and Muller begin by examining how philosophical theories which form the basis of contemporary ethical codes for journalists, bear upon undercover reporting and questions of deception in the digital age. Drawing upon case studies such as Al Jazeera’s undercover operation against the National Rifle Association in the US and the One Nation political party in Australia, and Britain’s Channel 4 infiltration of Cambridge Analytica, this book goes on to define and discuss the ethical concepts behind deception and betrayal and lays out an original ethical framework for undercover journalists facing related challenges in their work. Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism is an important research text for students and academics in journalism and media studies.

Author : Brooke Kroeger
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780810163515

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Undercover Reporting by Brooke Kroeger Pdf

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.

Author : Ståle Grut
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003858973

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Evaluating Digital Sources in Journalism by Ståle Grut Pdf

Building on a rich journalistic tradition of critical source analysis, this book considers the impact of the move from analogue to digital sources on information quality and presents methods and tools to verify information found online and help counter the spread of misinformation. Evaluating Digital Sources in Journalism critically maps the prevalence of online manipulation, particularly images and videos from social media platforms, and considers the tools needed both to carry out and to counter this. Strategies are proposed to help readers evaluate content, context and sources, and ultimately build a foundation for carrying out their own online open-source investigations. The author brings together theories and best practices from a broad range of literature, including modern Scandinavian research on the concept of “source criticism”, journalism and technology studies, advanced forensic verification research, and literature designed for practitioners, including blogs and industry publications. Evaluating Digital Sources in Journalism is recommended reading for advanced journalism students and journalism practitioners.

Author : Danielle F Deavours
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000994797

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Nonverbal Neutrality of Broadcasters Covering Crisis by Danielle F Deavours Pdf

Offering a critical and sensitive reflection on journalists’ nonverbal behaviors during their coverage of school shootings in the U.S., this book shows how individual- and social-level factors predict broadcasters’ nonverbal neutrality. Nonverbal behaviors have the ability to transmit bias, influence audiences, and impact perceptions of journalists. Yet journalists report receiving little to no training on nonverbal communication, despite often being placed in emotional, chaotic situations that affect their ability to remain neutral during coverage. This book provides theoretical and methodological contributions, as well as applicable advice, to assist researchers’, instructors’, and journalists’ understandings of ongoing boundary negotiations of this rarely discussed but highly impactful aspect of objectivity. Through the proposal of the Nonverbal Neutrality Theory, it outlines predictive patterns and routines that contribute to the variability of nonverbal neutrality, and equips readers, including industry professionals and journalism educators, with examples of best practice to help better plan for crisis coverage. The work draws on journalists’ reflections on professional norms and conceptualizations of nonverbal neutrality, vicarious traumatization, and social- and organizational-level influences. As one of the first to explore nonverbal neutrality, its predictive factors, and patterns across crisis events, this book provides a much-needed insight into the nonverbal behaviors of broadcast journalists at a time when the media relies ever more on visual delivery on television, digital, and social media networks.

Author : William A. Babcock,William H. Freivogel
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1133 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781506317274

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The SAGE Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law by William A. Babcock,William H. Freivogel Pdf

The SAGE Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law is an authoritative and rigorous two-volume, issues-based reference set that surveys varied views on many of the most contentious issues involving mass media ethics and the law. Divided into six thematic sections covering information from contrasting ethical responsibly and legal rights for both speech and press, newsgathering and access, and privacy to libelous reporting, business considerations, and changing rules with social media and the Internet, the information in this guide is extremely relevant to a variety of audiences. This guide specifically focuses on matters that are likely to be regular front-page headlines concerning topics such as technological threats to privacy, sensationalism in media coverage of high-profile trials, cameras in the courtroom, use of confidential sources, national security concerns and the press, digital duplication and deception, rights of celebrities, plagiarism, and more. Collectively, this guide assesses key contentious issues and legal precedents, noting current ethical and legal trends and likely future directions. Features: Six thematic sections consist of approximately a dozen chapters each written by eminent scholars and practitioners active in the field. Sections open with a general Introduction by the volume editors and conclude with a wrap-up “Outlook” section to highlight likely future trends. Chapters follow a common organizational outline of a brief overview of the issue at hand, historical background and precedent, and presentation of various perspectives (pro, con, mixed) to the issue. “See also” cross references guide readers to related chapters and references and further readings guide users to more in-depth resources for follow-up. This reference guide is an excellent source for the general public, students, and researchers who are interested in expanding their knowledge in mass media and the ethics and law surrounding it.

Author : Andrew Belsey,Ruth Chadwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134914807

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Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media by Andrew Belsey,Ruth Chadwick Pdf

This book examines the ethical concepts which lie at the heart of journalism, including freedom, democracy, truth, objectivity, honesty and privacy. The common concern of the authors is to promote ethical conduct in the practice of journalism, as well as the quality of the information that readers and audience receive from the media.

Author : Paul Lewis,Rob Evans
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780571302185

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Undercover by Paul Lewis,Rob Evans Pdf

'Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by undercover police officers - troubling, timely and brilliantly executed.' Henry Porter The gripping stories of a group of police spies - written by the award-winning investigative journalists who exposed the Mark Kennedy scandal - and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage. This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor British 'subversives' - environmental activists, anti-racist groups, animal rights campaigners. Police stole the identities of dead people to create fake passports, driving licences and bank accounts. They then went deep undercover for years, inventing whole new lives so that they could live incognito among the people they were spying on. They used sex, intimate relationships and drugs to build their credibility. They betrayed friends, deceived lovers, even fathered children. And their operations continue today. Undercover reveals the truth about secret police operations - the emotional turmoil, the psychological challenges and the human cost of a lifetime of deception - and asks whether such tactics can ever be justified.

Author : Andrea Carson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315514277

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Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age by Andrea Carson Pdf

Theoretically grounded and using quantitative data spanning more than 50 years together with qualitative research, this book examines investigative journalism’s role in liberal democracies in the past and in the digital age. In its ideal form, investigative reporting provides a check on power in society and therefore can strengthen democratic accountability. The capacity is important to address now because the political and economic environment for journalism has changed substantially in recent decades. In particular, the commercialization of the Internet has disrupted the business model of traditional media outlets and the ways news content is gathered and disseminated. Despite these disruptions, this book’s central aim is to demonstrate using empirical research that investigative journalism is not in fact in decline in developed economies, as is often feared.

Author : David E. Boeyink,Sandra L. Borden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135856182

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Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics by David E. Boeyink,Sandra L. Borden Pdf

This book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethical theories or principles. This book goes beyond the traditional approaches of many other journalism textbooks by using cases as the starting point for building ethical practices. Casuistry, the technical name of such a method, develops provisional guidelines from the bottom up by reasoning analogically from an "easy" ethical case (the "paradigm") to "harder" ethical cases. Thoroughly grounded in actual experience, this method admits more nuanced judgments than most theoretical approaches.

Author : Janet Malcolm
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307797872

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The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm Pdf

A seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject. Featuring the real-life lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. In Malcolm's view, neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-part article in The New Yorker, its thesis seemed so radical and its irony so pitiless that journalists across the country reacted as if stung. Her book is a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism: it at once exemplifies and dissects its subject. In her interviews with the leading and subsidiary characters in the MacDonald-McGinniss case -- the principals, their lawyers, the members of the jury, and the various persons who testified as expert witnesses at the trial -- Malcolm is always aware of herself as a player in a game that, as she points out, she cannot lose. The journalist-subject encounter has always troubled journalists, but never before has it been looked at so unflinchingly and so ruefully. Hovering over the narrative -- and always on the edge of the reader's consciousness -- is the MacDonald murder case itself, which imparts to the book an atmosphere of anxiety and uncanniness. The Journalist and the Murderer derives from and reflects many of the dominant intellectual concerns of our time, and it will have a particular appeal for those who cherish the odd, the off-center, and the unsolved.

Author : Jack Fuller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226268802

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News Values by Jack Fuller Pdf

Collection of essays in which the author, president and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, discusses what he understands to be the underlying public values a newspaper serves and the implications of those values.

Author : Aidan White
Publisher : Aidan Patrick White
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Journalistic ethics
ISBN : 9789090238463

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To Tell You the Truth by Aidan White Pdf

Author : Mark Hunter
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Investigative reporting
ISBN : 9789230010898

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The Global Investigative Journalism Casebook by Mark Hunter Pdf

Author : John Herbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136029851

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Practising Global Journalism by John Herbert Pdf

From this book, you will gain an understanding of the global media marketplace - the technology, the players and the issues. The role of news agencies, sources and networks are explored covering the issues of ethics, global media ownership and control. Find out how journalists are using the web and learn even newer ways to collect and communicate information. Essential reading for today's practising and trainee journalists. John Herbert examines the global environment in which journalists operate and describes the latest technology and its impact on print, broadcast and online journalism practice. Practising Global Journalism is a unique overview of the profession, providing a comparative study of journalism practice worldwide. Case studies are drawn from Europe, Australia, the Asia Pacific, South Asia, China, Africa and the Americas.

Author : Denis Muller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030767617

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Journalism and the Future of Democracy by Denis Muller Pdf

This book is about how journalism can contribute to the recovery of democracy from the crisis exemplified by the Trump presidency, the Brexit referendum and the rise of populism across the Western world. It explores the ethical concepts that provide the foundation for journalism in modern democracies: pluralism, liberalism, tolerance, truth, free speech, and impartiality. History has shown that crisis brings opportunity for change on a scale that is unachievable under ordinary political conditions, and this book proposes fundamental ways in which journalism can help democratic societies seize the moment. It traces the development of traditional mass media and social media and explores how the two might work better together to benefit democratic life. The development of press theory is described, and enhanced by a proposed new theory, Democratic Revival.