Undercover Reporting

Journalists have devised any number of ruses to get inside hospitals and clinics --  as patients or staff members.

Among the most common of poses: journalists who elect to live as tramps, the homeless, or the abject poor.

Reporters encounter or inhabit the lives of very hard-laboring others.

Reporters have worked as migrant laborers and shadowed undocumented workers crossing the border into the United States.

Waste, fraud, graft, laxity, dilapidated conditions, corruption: Reporters have often used undercover tactics to investigate.

A collection of Dick J. Reavis' works pertaining to undercover journalism.