Notable Undercover Journalists
Hunter S. Thompson was known for his undercover work reporting on the California based motorcycle gang, the Hells Angels. This book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, profiles the gang as Thompson spent roughly a year embedded among the Angels, during a time when their notoriety was at an all time high.
Elizabeth Jane Cochran wrote under the pseudonym, Nellie Bly, she 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. After 10 days she was released and later went on to help a grand jury prosecute the mental ward.
Gunter Wallraff was 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. He sought employment in German factories, pharmaceutical companies, and a wide array of odd jobs for roughly two years before publishing the book.
Donal MacIntyre is an Irish journalist who went undercover to expose employment standards in the Adventure Sports industry following the Lyme Regis canoeing disaster. He also won an award for his undercover work exposing drug dealers and private security firms that work in collusion after living in character for 11 months.
Alex Dolan is a journalist and science teacher best known for her undercover work exposing poor student behavior in her British classroom for the filming of a Channel 4* documentary Undercover Teacher.
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