Vol. 13, No. 1
Spring 2012
Table of Contents
Introduction
Editors’ Reflection [PDF]
The Journalism of Deception
New York University
University of South Carolina
Featured Essays
The Enduring Problem of Journalism: Telling the Truth [PDF]
The 1961 Freedom Rides were a pivotal episode in the African American civil rights movement. They illustrate some of the challenges
that journalists encounter in their attempts to report accurately, truthfully, and honestly.
University of South Carolina
Why Surreptitiousness Works
[PDF]
Dating back to the early 1800s, the long, continuous, rich, and proud historical record of undercover projects contains many examples
of high-risk, high-impact investigations in the public interest that required some degree of subterfuge on the part of reporters.
New York University
The Brief Against Deception in Reporting
[PDF]
The author argues that journalists are not granted the tools of law enforcement and must confine themselves to functioning
within “well-defined limits.”
University of California, Berkeley
Journalism and Deception: The Other Side of a Two-Faced Coin
[PDF]
This essay explores two separate but related issues: those raised by journalists who find themselves deceived by others
and the willingness of journalists at times to deceive themselves.
Northwestern University