Ted Conover is author of "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing," an account of nearly a year's work undercover as a corrections officer. Conover is now writer-in-residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.
Ted Conover appears in the following:
In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Days, A Strike in Memphis
Monday, January 15, 2018
The Horrors of Solitary Confinement
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Ted Conover Goes Undercover as a Meat Inspector
Friday, April 26, 2013
Ted Conover talks about going undercover as a U.S.D.A. inspector at Cargill Meat Solutions in Schuyler, Nebraska. He learned the the meat inspection trade, sees what goes on inside slaughterhouses and, much to his surprise, runs into a representative from Eli Lilly who’s looking for the effects of antibiotics on the meat. He’s written about it in May’s Harper’s magazine, "The Way of All Flesh: Undercover in an Industrial Slaughterhouse."
Going Undercover In An Industrial Slaughterhouse
Friday, April 19, 2013
In the May issue of Harper’s magazine, Ted Conover, a longtime undercover and participatory journalist, details his job as an undercover federal meat inspector at an industrial slaughterhouse. Conover talks to Brooke about meat safety, going undercover and why it's necessary to bring a hidden world to life.
On the Road
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A prison briefing for Obama
Monday, November 17, 2008
--Ted Conover on what prisoners want in prison reform