{"id":952,"date":"2012-08-06T11:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=952"},"modified":"2012-08-06T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:41:54","slug":"nyu-launches-history-of-undercover-reporting-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/06\/nyu-launches-history-of-undercover-reporting-database\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU launches history of undercover reporting database"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Undercover Reporting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d database<\/a> chronicles undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Much of this material has long been buried in microfilm in individual libraries and thus very difficult to retrieve,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says NYU journalism professor Brooke Kroeger, who spearheaded the project. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most digitized newspaper archives do not go back past the 1980s or 1990s and even for those that do, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to search without exact details of the piece you are seeking.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Read the press release after the jump.<\/p>\n

<\/span>
Press release<\/em><\/p>\n

NYU Launches History of Undercover Reporting Database<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York University has launched a database chronicling undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. The archive, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Undercover Reporting,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d includes an array of stories, ranging from the slave trade in 1850s to efforts to boycott Jewish-owned businesses in the U.S. in the late 1930s to treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

The database, www.undercoverreporting.org, is a joint endeavor of Professor Brooke Kroeger of NYU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Division of Libraries, where the Digital Library Technology Services team developed the online platform that hosts the database, with consultation from the Libraries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing and its Collections and Research Services.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Much of this material has long been buried in microfilm in individual libraries and thus very difficult to retrieve,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Kroeger, who conceived and directed the project. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most digitized newspaper archives do not go back past the 1980s or 1990s and even for those that do, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to search without exact details of the piece you are seeking.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The database is designed for scholars, student researchers, and journalists, who can search by writer, publication, story topic, or method (e.g., prison infiltrations, shadowing migrants, impersonation, etc.). It also includes critics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 reactions to these tactics\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor instance, their response to the use of hidden cameras.<\/p>\n

The database coincides with the publication of Kroeger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Undercover Reporting: The Truth about Deception (Northwestern University Press, Aug. 31, 2012), which emerged from this research. In the book, Kroeger posits that this type of journalism is not separate from the profession\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conventional practices but, rather, embodies some of its most important tenets\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attention.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Researching the book changed my perception of the practice and its role in journalism history, making clear how early reporters were experimenting with the method\u00e2\u20ac\u201cnotably northern reporters working to expose the slave trade in the south in the years leading up to the Civil War,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explained Kroeger. <\/p>\n

The project is supported by NYU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Humanities Initiative and the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Faculty of Arts and Science.\t<\/p>\n

via JIMROMENESKO.COM http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2012\/08\/06\/nyu-launches-history-of-undercover-reporting-database\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Undercover Reporting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d database chronicles undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Much of this material has long been buried in microfilm in individual libraries and thus very difficult to retrieve,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says NYU journalism professor Brooke Kroeger, who spearheaded the project. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most digitized newspaper archives do not go back past the 1980s or … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “NYU launches history of undercover reporting database”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,172,173],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ifttt","tag-jim","tag-jimromenesko-com"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-fm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}