''Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story'' is a
nonfiction
Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ...
work by
David Weir and Dan Noyes, with a foreword by
Mike Wallace
Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. He interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspo ...
. It was published in 1983 by
Addison-Wesley
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Publishing Company and contains reprints of
investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years rese ...
articles from the time period, with analysis and background on how the journalists investigated the issues and prepared for the articles. An article by Kate Coleman and Paul Avery called "The Party's Over", which discussed the
Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxism-Leninism, Marxist-Leninist and Black Power movement, black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. New ...
, was analyzed.
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Jessica Mitford
Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft (née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly; 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.
Jessica married her second ...
and Mike Wallace both wrote positively of the book. It was also reviewed in ''Newspaper Research Journal''.
''Raising Hell'' is used as a college textbook, and is referenced in Pearson's ''The Shadow of the Panther'',
and in
John Lofland's ''Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities''.
See also
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Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is a nonprofit news organization based in Emeryville, California. It was founded in 1977 as the nation’s first nonprofit investigative journalism organization, and has since grown into a multi-platf ...
References
External links
Center for Investigative ReportingWeb siteDan Noyes
1983 non-fiction books
Books about journalism
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