The hidden camera is an invaluable tool for reporters. But it can also be a dangerous tool if used for the wrong reasons.

Carrie Ching
Independent Multimedia Producer
Carrie Ching is an award-winning, independent multimedia journalist and producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For six years, she led digital storytelling projects at the Center for Investigative Reporting as senior multimedia producer. Her multimedia reports have been featured by NPR.org, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Grist, Time.com, Fast Company, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, KQED, PBS NewsHour, Salon.com, Mother Jones, Public Radio International, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review and many other publications. Her specialty is crafting digital narratives and exploring ways to use video, audio, photography, animation and interactive graphics to push the boundaries of storytelling on the Web, tablets and mobile. Her work has been honored with awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Best of the West, the Online News Association, Scripps Howard, The Gracies, and was part of the entry in a Pulitzer-finalist project. Prior to her time at CIR she was a magazine and book editor, video journalist, newspaper reporter and TV comedy scriptwriter. She was on the 2010 Eddie Adams Workshop faculty as a multimedia producer working with MediaStorm to teach digital storytelling techniques to photojournalists. She completed a master’s degree in journalism at UC Berkeley in 2005.
On EXPOSÉ: Airports fail security tests
Watch some of the original TV reports that “Security Theater” is based on.
Preview: “Security Theater”
Going undercover and using hidden cameras, TV reporters reveal lax airport security after 9/11.
The true cost of cheap products
A Salt Lake Tribune investigation ties the death toll in Chinese factories to cheap imports in the U.S.
Pay to play
On EXPOSÉ: Reporters uncover a trail of bribes taken by Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham.
Filling the gap
ProPublica, a new nonprofit journalism venture in New York, to launch early next year.
What’s in your lipstick?
The “What’s Online” column in the New York Times features Exposed.
Soldiers and suicide
Are American soldiers in Iraq mentally fit to fight?
Taking on the church
After a reporter outs a pedophile within the Boy Scouts, the paper is attacked by conservatives.