Undercover journalism

The nine elements of journalism as outlined in a book by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel are as follows: As reporters have gone undercover some of these guidelines have been bent and broken in order to uphold others on the list.

According to the Columbia Journalism Review, "Overreliance on sting operations and subterfuge can weaken the public's trust in the media and compromise journalists' claim to be truth-tellers.

[citation needed] Journalists who are famous for their undercover reports include: Gloria Steinem's "A Bunny's Tale," which ran in two parts in Show magazine in 1963, exposed exploitative working conditions in New York's Playboy Club.

Elizabeth Jane Cochran, writing under the pseudonym Nellie Bly, became known for her undercover work for the New York World, titled Ten Days in a Mad-House, when she checked herself into an insane asylum as a patient to report on cruelty and neglect.

Gunter Wallraff is a German journalist known for his undercover work, Ganz unten ("The lowest of the low"), on exposing the oppressive conditions faced by the immigrant workforce in Germany.

Anas has won critical acclaim for his work advocating for the right to not be held in human slavery or servitude and to have a standard of living in the event of an illness.

Donal MacIntyre is an Irish journalist who went undercover to expose employment standards in the Adventure Sports industry following the Lyme Regis canoeing disaster.

Because Daleiden used a falsified driver's license to obtain access to the Planned Parenthood officials, he was indicted by a Houston grand jury for a second degree felony.