Brooke Kroeger

Links for Brooke’s books and Brooke at NYU and beyond

• Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute – New York University
• Brooke Kroeger’s bio and a Report on her two terms as director, 2004-2011
• Global and Joint Program Studies, the graduate program Brooke directs
• Brooke’s address on the Ecstasy Factor in acts of research, for the Undergraduate Research Conference, NYU College of Arts and Science, April 2017.
• An essay on Brooke’s teaching philosophy: Journalism with a Scholar’s Intent
• An essay on biography, from a presentation at Northwestern/Medill in its “Literature of Fact” series, Reporting on People: The Biographical Imperative
• A Commencement address (December 2006) to undergraduates in the College of Arts and Science at NYU.
• Brooke in a 2007 address on Cherry-picking Other People’s Work.
• Brooke appears in journalismdegree.org’s list of the 50 top journalism professors of 2012

Brooke’s Database/Online Collaborative Projects

• A new database on women’s suffrage and the media (an AJHA collaboration): http://suffrageandthemedia.org
• Brooke’s Undercover Reporting database project with NYU Libraries
• Background on the NYTimes-NYU The Local East Village
• The Local East Village
• Bedford + Bowery, the NYU Journalism site in collaboration with New York Magazine that succeeded The Local East Village. Brooke was the supervising founder of both. 
• Site for Brooke’s 2012 project for The Local: The East Village Other: The Rise of Alternative Comix and the Underground Press, 1967-72

Links for THE SUFFRAGENTS: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote

• THE SUFFRAGENTS; How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
• Don’t miss the great trailer by Adam Vine:
• An article by Brooke for Tablet Magazine on rabbis at the pro- and anti-suffrage forefront.
• Watch for the launch in June 2017 of Women’s Suffrage and the Media, a new website and database created in support of American Journalism’s planned special issue on Suffrage and the Media for April 2019.

Links for UNDERCOVER REPORTING: The Truth About Deception and undercoverreporting.org

• Brooke talks undercover reporting on On the Media, January 29, 2016
• Brooke talks Undercover Reporting on C-Span 2’s Book TV
• Undercover Reporting‘s companion online database, hosted by NYU Libraries: undercoverreporting.org
• The entire book in PDFs, is available to subscribers via Project Muse.
• WNYC’s On the Media did a very well updated version of a 2008 segment, titled, “Cover-Ups” that does a fine look at the undercover reporting genre, touching on all its latter day hits and misses.
• The Schuster Institute’s page on Undercover Reporting and the database.
• Schuster Institute Investigations spotlights the horrors of human trafficking and includes Brooke’s essay, “Journalists Go Undercover to Report on Slavery.”
• The Journalism of Deception (A group of essays, including Brooke’s “Why Surreptitiousness Works,” Journal of Magazine & New Media Research.)
• Journalists of Color Part of Undercover Database (Richard Prince’s Journal-isms)
• Hidden Gems in the Undercover Database (IJNet.org)
• Heartland, Gleick, and Media Law: Experts weigh in on leaks and deceptive tactics (CJR)
• Newsrooms to Classrooms: Books as a Thread of Connection (Nieman Reports)
• Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting (A CJR Podcast, No. 7 on the page)
• Cover Ups (Brooke Gladstone with Brooke and others, On the Media, WNYC)
• Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person (C-Span broadcast of NYU panel with Bill Wasik, Ted Conover, Jeff Sharlet, Ken Silverstein, and Brooke)
• Practicing the Art of Deception (Megan Stride’s Q&A wtih Brooke, Gelf Magazine.)

Links for PASSING: When People Can’t Be Who They Are

• Google Books preview
• WFUV “Cityscape” makes Brooke and Passing the metaphorical segment of its program “Behind the Mask.” (circa minute 21:00)
• Many of the articles and essays gathered here are reflections by other writers on the phenomenon of passing, sparked by the book’s publication, which happened to coincide with the film release of  The Human Stain.

Links for FANNIE: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst

• The Fannie Hurst Collection at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
• The Fannie Hurst Collection at Brandeis University
• The Fannie Hurst Collection at Washington University- St. Louis
• Brooke Kroeger’s encyclopedia entry on Fannie Hurst in the Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia (p. 260-2)
• Another entry on Fannie Hurst is in the Encyclopedia of American Women’s History, edited by Hasia Diner, but not yet online.
• Fannie Hurst entries in the International Movie Data Base.

Links for NELLIE BLY: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

• Brooke Kroeger’s encyclopedia entry on Nellie Bly in the Encyclopedia of American Journalism
• DRadio Wissen (German Public Radio) on “Ten Days in a Madhouse”  “Undercover Im Irrenhaus“
• CJR looks at the torch-passing to the current generation of stunt journalists
• Brooke Kroeger and Matthew Goodman talk Nellie Bly on BBC 4’s “The Woman’s Hour” 17 January 2013. Download the program or listen to just the Nellie Bly segment of it.  BrookeBBCInterview
• New York Corrections History pages on Nellie Bly
• Bly’s Ten Days in a Madhouse
• Bly’s Six Months in Mexico
• Bly’s Around the World in 72 Days
• Bly’s only novel The Mystery of Central Park is available as part of this e-book collection of all four of her works.
• PBS’ American Experience, “Around the World in 72 Days”
• An online resource by Arthur Fritz
• Nellie Bly page and links to her undercover reporting pieces at undercoverreporting.org

Credits

• Photograph by Kristin Hoebermann
• Design by Lauren Rabaino, updated by Katy Dwyer and Garrett Gardner