On the ethics of undercover reporting

A Chinese newspaper's undercover reporter exposed cheating on university exams, but Charles Liu writes that the effort is being denounced: "Chen Baocheng, a reporter with Caixin Media, criticized the undercover reporter’s use of another person’s identity to gain admittance to the exam. Chen said that since the undercover reporter committed the same crime as those he was attempting to expose, he should be punished as well. 'A news article is no excuse,' Chen said."

June 19, 2015

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