Deception for Journalism's Sake: A Database

Journalistic Acts of Race, Class, Ethnic and Gender Impersonation

Journalism that required costuming or even physical transformation by reporters reporting on racial, ethnic, gender or social groups not their own.

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Uncloaking the Lobbyists

Reporter efforts to get inside the world of lobbyists, both on Capitol Hill and in the statehouses.

entered surreptitously, Eric Lipton, ken silverstein, Nellie Bly, posed as client, Undercover

Undercover in U.S. Political Campaigns

Going undercover as volunteers or invited guests has gotten reporters an inside look at some U.S. political campaigns. So has shadowing the candidates in their off-hours.

Barack Obama, campaign, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, presidential, U.S. political campaigns, worked as

Exposing Predators

Across the world, journalists have used undercover techniques to expose individual predators and as well as major sex crime rings.

"Blackbirding" - The Slave System's Just-as-Evil Twin?

Journalists from the United States and Australia get inside the post-Civil War practice of recruiting Pacific Islanders to work the world's non-U.S. plantations on extended contracts of indenture.