Exposé (journalism)
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An exposé is an exposure or revelation, often by way of an article or book, which provides shocking or surprising information. The end result of investigative journalism may often be an exposé where a reporter or author has delved into a subject and discovered fraud, controversy, scandal or other misdeed.
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[edit] Notable examples
- How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis (1890), which revealed the squalor of immigrant slums in New York City of the 1890s
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906), which exposed shocking disregard for hygienic practices in the meat-packing industry of the early 1900s
- The People of the Abyss by Jack London, on poverty in the East End of London in the early 1900s
- The case of David Reimer exposed John Money's erroneous theories about gender identity development in children.
- Mommie Dearest (1978)
