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	The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : UNDERCOVER JOURNALISM AND ETHICS
		Undercover journalism is not a new phenomenon in India.
		These investigations have won admiration within the profession and from the public, which suggests that relevant and purposeful undercover journalism is not merely acceptable under certain conditions but is an indispensable force for the social good.
		Yellow journalism should provoke those in the profession to think more deeply about the purposes and methods of journalism, and to take a clear stand on the interface between freedom of expression, and professional and social responsibility.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2005/04/06/stories/2005040602251000.htm (634 words)

	foodlionbalt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		What happened to ABC, and is happening to journalism in general, is simple: Although the Supreme Court in 1964 gave the press a sturdy First Amendment shield against lawsuits challenging media stories, in 1991 the court created an option for lawyers to bypass the constitutional shield and sue the media.
		Undercover journalists are more likely to be targeted by lawsuits, keyed to that 1991 decision, because they risk breaking laws by using deception.
		The urge to use "spy cam journalism" is stronger, especially in the hotly competitive environment of the "24-hour news cycle" with cable networks acting as aggressive rivals to the more traditional broadcast outlets.
	www.unh.edu /journalism/foodlionbalt.htm (1918 words)

	Undercover journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Undercover journalism is a form of journalism in which a reporter tries to infiltrate in a community by posing as somebody friendly to that community.
		Journalists who are famous for their undercover reports:
		This page was last modified 19:51, 9 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Undercover_journalism (59 words)

	Nellie Bly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She let herself be committed and exposed the horrible conditions under which patients were treated at the asylum.
		This form of journalism, going undercover to get a story, would become her trademark.
		She was also the first woman to travel around the world unaccompanied at all times by a man, and became a role model for women everywhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Jane_Cochran (518 words)

	AEJMC Archives -- October 1997, week 2 (#41)
		Prior to beginning their undercover work, the reporters had mailed registered letters to a sampling of 5,495 voters in precincts where voter fraud was suspected and thereby were able to prove that about 13 percent of the registered voters were dead or never existed (Dygert, 1976, 126).
		By going undercover with hidden cameras before having documented proof, the ABC reporters and producers appeared to be fishing for evidence when their undercover operation was exposed by the clinic (News Media and the Law, winter 1995, 23-25; Meier and Carter, 1996).
		Evidence collected prior to the launching of an undercover operation must prove that the target of the investigation is engaged in illegal or immoral acts that threatens the welfare or the freedom of the public.8 3.
	list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9710b&L=aejmc&F=&S=&P=6030 (4470 words)

	Chicago Reader: Hot Type
		It was condemned as an antic, a sleight-of-hand unworthy of journalism's highest honors.
		News Values is up to the important business of setting journalism on a new foundation more honorable than the old, but Fuller sweeps undercover journalism into a bin with a lot of old-time techniques we can agree were outrageous, like stealing photos and posing as a cop.
		Targets of undercover probes discovered that if they sued their inquisitors for fraud (for lying, say, on the resumes that put investigators inside the plant) instead of libel, truth was no longer a defense.
	www.chicagoreader.com /hottype/2002/021004_1.html (1701 words)

	Chicago Reader: Hot Type
		We heard from a source that from time to time janitors would be used to go into the surgery rooms and move the patients back to their beds without washing up.
		In 1970 Bill Jones went undercover as an ambulance driver, and the Tribune won a Pulitzer for a series that the Pulitzer board said exposed "collusion between police and some of Chicago's largest private ambulance companies to restrict service in low income areas, leading to major reforms." Jones then founded the task force.
		In 1972 Bill Mullen went undercover as an election clerk, and the Tribune won a Pulitzer for uncovering "flagrant violations of voting procedures" during that year's primary.
	www.chireader.com /hottype/2001/010810_1.html (1130 words)

	Special Section - The Story Behind the Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Columbia Journalism Review reporter Brian Montopoli, who interviewed Steve Smith for a story published on cjrdaily.org, says the paper's methods were "defensible to a degree" and that verifying that the chat room character was indeed West before publishing it as a rumor was, actually, in the mayor's best interests.
		Smith tells The Inlander, "We didn't have anything [substantial] to report until March and early April," saying that the investigation was nothing but "smoke" at the time of the mayoral endorsement and that he recused himself from the endorsement that year.
		"The fundamental challenge that the Spokesman-Review faces with its undercover, fictional, non-journalistic approach is that they are attempting to convince their readers of a truth by engaging in a lie," he says, adding that it's not unheard of.
	www.inlander.com /SpecialSection/WestFlap/320444472327573.php (1086 words)

	Undercover Journalists? Gasp! \| MetaFilter
		"This is a form of undercover journalism that, thankfully, went out of vogue in the early 1980's." This is one reason newspapers suck in the early 2000's.
		Undercover is a gray area to me. Say the journalist is investigating pricing fraud at some store.
		Anyone who can't imagine a situation in 2005 in which a journalist would need to go undercover to expose serious corruption is sticking their head in the sand in an almost hilarious way.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/41901 (4303 words)

	November/December 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This year, as the anniversary of the terrorist attacks drew near, the Gannett-owned State Journal in Lansing, Michigan, perhaps inspired by its sibling’s creativity but hoping to avoid the fallout, took a different, more direct approach.
		Among other things, Schneider explained that such “negative optioning,” in which consumers must take some action to avoid being billed for an offered product they do not want, is illegal; he also calculated the percentage of the fifteen-cent surcharge that would actually go to the charity: two-and-a-half cents.
		Persuading grieving parents to part with a snapshot of their murdered daughter, a reporter for the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Morning Call in 1995 promised to “guard it with my life”; the photo was never returned.
	archives.cjr.org /year/02/6/dartsandlaurels.asp (1305 words)

	Comments on 20551 \| MetaFilter
		Exactly what I said: Journalism wouldn't be possible without sources who were led to believe they wouldn't be fucked over, and there are many, many instances where journalists know that's exactly what will happen when a story sees print.
		Journalism wouldn't be possible without sources who were led to believe they wouldn't be fucked over, and there are many, many instances where journalists know that's exactly what will happen when a story sees print.
		Journalism does the world a lot of good, but it would be better (and the writing more interesting), I think, if journalists would just feel free to be journalists and not worried about being seen as professionals.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/20551 (4196 words)

	The Indian Express : Editorials & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Yet undercover journalism albeit on a much smaller scale than the Tehelka operation — back in the news thanks to the recently uncovered sex angle — was not uncommon.
		As far as I am concerned, I have some reservations about sting journalism itself, as it has come to be defined in the wake of the Tehelka investigations.
		It would however be both dangerous and wrong if it was to set a precedent as being the only way and the only method of investigative journalism.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie20010830/ed5.html (797 words)

	CJR July/August 2005 - Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Declining readership and sagging newsstand sales have fed a general malaise in journalism, and combined with increasing corporate insistence on profit margins of 20 percent to 30 percent, have put a big squeeze on print news.
		Staff cuts mean less enterprise journalism and promote the sense among reporters that a lot of important stuff doesn’t make it into the newspaper.
		It was the common burdens of depression and war (world and cold) in the last century that reinforced the idea of an objective press, a high-minded model adopted in response to excesses of the earlier “yellow” journalism.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2005/4/mccollam.asp (2053 words)

	Mark Daly - Graduate Viewpoint - University of Stirling
		It was the print journalism course, as part of my Film and Media studies degree that pointed me in the direction of journalism.
		I then worked as a news reporter fir the Scotsman before working at the Daily Record and it was there that I got my first taste of undercover journalism, as part of a campaign against heroin.
		It was about that time that I heard that there was a place going at the BBC as an undercover reporter.
	www.external.stir.ac.uk /undergrad/graduate/mark.php (359 words)

	RMIT - Literary Journalism: The Art and Craft of Telling True Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Literary journalism is a field that in the past has been overlooked and undervalued within the disciplines of both literature and journalism.
		Fierce debate surrounded the so-called New Journalism of the sixties and seventies precisely because it offended traditional notions of journalism and literature.
		Either a 3000 word essay or a 2500 word piece of literary journalism accompanied by a 500 word report on the process of researching and writing the story.* Either assignment is worth 40% of the total mark and is due at the end of week 14; that is, by 5pm on Friday 21 October.
	www.rmit.edu.au /browse?SIMID=COMM2080 (2348 words)

	USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): A chill settles over investigative journalism - Food Lion ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Most journalists are uncomfortable when discussing undercover journalism.
		Undercover journalism should be avoided except in extreme cases.
		He has criticized the "panjandrums of the Fourth Estate who decry hidden cameras or undercover reporting as beneath the dignity of their high calling.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2626_v125/ai_19622630 (1033 words)

	Guardian \| Police pay damages to BBC reporter
		The settlement will be hailed as an important victory both for MacIntyre's controversial style of undercover journalism, and for campaigners against the abuses that are suffered by people with learning disabilities who live in care homes.
		The disputed edition of MacIntyre Undercover was broadcast on November 16 1999.
		MacIntyre had placed the BBC's reputation for authoritative journalism on the line, and there was further controversy when the BBC climbed down after MacIntyre alleged inappropriate behaviour towards teenage girls by senior executives at the Elite model agency.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4517221-103690,00.html (602 words)

	PressThink: Spokane Mayor Sex Scandal: Would You Give Paper an Award?
		Essay in Columbia Journalism Review on the changing terms of authority in the press, brought on in part by the weblog's individual--and interactive--style of journalism.
		We don’t go undercover or lie to get stories either, but I think Julia Wallace of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has it right when she told Editor and Publisher that she hadn’t done it before, but could envision a time when it might be necessary.
		Journalism Is Itself a Religion: "We're headed, I think, for schism, tumult and divide as the religion of the American press meets the upheavals in global politics and public media that are well underway.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/05/11/steve_smith.html (10173 words)

	December/January headlines
		A Missoula judge will set a hearing as early as this month to hear evidence as to whether a UM journalism student ought to be considered a journalist protected by Montana's shield law from turning film over to police.
		School of Journalism enrollment is in the third year of a steep climb.
		Students in journalism number 499 for the 2000-2001 academic year, up 22 percent from the previous year's 410.
	www.umt.edu /journalism/news_pages/archives/December/Dec-Jan00/archive.dec.htm (3219 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / Letters to the Editor : Journalism & ethics
		Sir, — This refers to the editorial, "Undercover journalism and ethics" (April 6).
		Sir, — I agree that undercover journalism should be socially purposeful.
		But if we were to give undue importance to ethics and invasion of privacy, we cannot ferret out information or bring it to light at all.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2005/04/08/stories/2005040802321004.htm (171 words)

	Inner Bitch
		Nelly Bly was an inner bitch of the finest water.
		She pioneered undercover journalism in 1888 when she had herself committed to an insane asylum for 10 days so that she could write an expose.
		Interestingly, she describes a group of violently insane women as "busy on their individual freaks"; I hadn't thought the word "freak" was in use in the nineteenth century.
	www.innerbitch.net /2004/03/nellie-bly-on-fly-in-honor-of.html (304 words)

	PressThink: Comment on Spokane Mayor Sex Scandal: Would You Give Paper an Award? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Anyone who thinks this level of tabloid journalism deserves a Pulitzer is totally out to sea in terms of the value of journalism.
		I am disturbed by idiots who have decided that all "undercover" journalism is suddenly unethical.
		Poynter links to IU's Ethics cases ("...created for teachers, researchers, professional journalists and consumers of news to help them explore ethical issues in journalism"), but "exploring" is the key word here: there's a fundamental piece missing, namely, a sense of general agreement on the answers.
	journalism.nyu.edu /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1610 (2105 words)

	Rathergate.com » Open thread — undercover journalism in Spokane
		Not all ethical decisions in journalism are fl and white.
		Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information except when traditional open methods will not yield information vital to the public.
		Now, I emphatically want to state that I don’t think that this undercover stuff automatically discredits the work that the newspaper did — the case against West is solid and damning, despite the expiration of the statute of limitations.
	www.rathergate.com /?p=782 (1601 words)

	"Jayson Blair, Now Charlie LeDuff. Liberal Racism at Work" by the Black Shadow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The AP had simply been thumbing through the journalism school's roster seeking a minority intern, and picked out Ayesha's name, assuming that she was fl.
		Journalism was no different, but minorities quickly learned they could get away with more than their white counterparts.
		While this could be a case of ''undercover'' journalism at its finest, not having an undercover partner to corroborate the reporting of now makes his whole article suspect, considering the hot water he's in now.
	www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=5372 (721 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Zimbabwe arrests five on suspicion of undercover journalism
		Zimbabwe arrests five on suspicion of undercover journalism
		POLICE in Zimbabwe have arrested five foreigners they say are undercover journalists.
		The five, who sneaked into the country as the regime of Robert Mugabe gets increasingly edgy ahead of World Cup cricket matches to be played here next month, are from the United States, Finland, Germany and Kenya.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=103942003 (689 words)

	All posts tagged with journalism \| Metafilter
		Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, discusses the decline of the mainstream media and the ideal of objectivity: Accuracy in Media (1969), the Center for Media and Public Affairs (1985), the abolition of the Fairness Doctrine (1987), Rush Limbaugh (1988), Fox News (1996), weblogs, cost-cutting at newspapers.
		Project for Excellence in Journalism Report NYT: The annual Project for Excellence in Journalism report on the state of the media says that the use of anonymous sources in newspapers has dropped significantly over the last year.
		The New Games Journalism is a manifesto written earlier this year in an attempt to re-shape the way that video game reviews are written, moving away from a stats-based view (these are the weapons, the graphics quality is X, the A.I. is as good as Y), and toward a more narrative approach.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/journalism (5289 words)

	NOTHING NOBLE ABOUT TABLOID JOURNALISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The needs of the medium, however, should not be confused with the needs of journalism or of the public.
		As for journalism, it is ill served by insiders like Tom Rosenstiel who described ABC's hidden-camera stunt as being in pursuit of ``a noble journalistic goal.'' Rosenstiel, ironically enough, is director of something called ``the Project for Excellence in Journalism,'' and is reputedly concerned with media ethics.
		The record of undercover journalism is far from unblemished; the effort and risks required tends to sharpen the self-interest of those involved and put temptation in their way.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970202/01310028.htm (643 words)

	Marketplace for January 22, 1997
		His article in the Wall Street Journal exposed degrading conditions in a number of low-wage workplaces, including the chicken-packing industry.
		He calls undercover journalism "a useful tool in some situations" and he hopes the judgement does not scare the profession off its limited practice.
		An economic note today, Contractors and developers pulled in their horns in December, with housing starts falling more than 12 percent to the lowest point in a year and a half.
	marketplace.publicradio.org /shows/1997/01/22_mpp.html (1470 words)

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