undercover journalism
Deep Cover: What It Was Like Working as a Prison Guard at Sing Sing in the 1990s
Ted Conover discusses how little has changed in the 15 years since he infiltrated Sing Sing in order to write a book about the prison system.
I Was a Paid Shill for the Tanning Industry
There was a time in my life when I was too broke to care about ethics.
Virgin Auctions and Emergency Circumcisions: My Life As an Undercover Journalist
Spanish investigative journalist Antonio Salas has lived a lot of lives. For a story on neo-Nazi football hooliganism, he infiltrated a group of far-right Real Madrid ultras, shaving his head and going to white power gigs while he played the part.
How to Kill a Wolf - An Undercover Report from the Idaho Coyote and Wolf Derby
I had come to the town of Salmon, Idaho—population 3,000—to enter as a contestant in the first annual Idaho Coyote and Wolf Derby. Over the course of two days in late December, several hundred hunters would compete to kill as many wolves and coyotes as...
Think Your Job Sucks? Try Working in an Amazon Warehouse
Jean-Baptiste Malet went undercover to write a depressing book about it.