Raising Hell (book)

{{Short description|1983 book by David Weir and Dan Noyes}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = Raising Hell

| title_orig =

| translator =

| image = Raising Hell (book) cover.jpg

| author = David Weir and Dan Noyes, foreword by Mike Wallace

| cover_artist = Mike Fender

| country = United States

| language = English

| series =

| genre = Nonfiction, journalism

| publisher = Addison-Wesley

| release_date = September 1983

| media_type = Print, Hardcover

| pages = 340 p.

| isbn = 0-201-10858-5

| oclc = 9622391

}}

Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story is a nonfiction work by David Weir and Dan Noyes, with a foreword by Mike Wallace. It was published in 1983 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company and contains reprints of investigative journalism 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, was analyzed.{{cite book

| last =Pearson

| first =Hugh

| title =The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America

| publisher =Da Capo Press

| year =1994

| isbn = 0-201-48341-6

| page =397}}

Jessica Mitford and Mike Wallace both wrote positively of the book.Raising Hell, back jacket, 1983. It was also reviewed in Newspaper Research Journal.{{cite journal

| last =Eyerly

| first =Mark

| title =Book Review: Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story, by David Weir and Dan Noyes

| journal =Newspaper Research Journal

| volume =6

| issue =1

| pages =61–63

| date =Fall 1984

| doi =10.1177/073953298400600110

| url =http://www.cdonohue.com/nrj/staticpages/index.php?page=vol_6

}}

Raising Hell is used as a college textbook,[http://journalism.berkeley.edu/program/investigative/faculty/ Investigative Reporting Faculty and Lecturers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609185237/http://journalism.berkeley.edu/program/investigative/faculty/ |date=2007-06-09 }}, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, David Weir, The Regents of the University of California, 2006. Retrieved 14/06/2007. 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.{{cite book

| last =Lofland

| first =John

| title =Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities

| publisher =Aldine Transaction

| year =1996

| url =https://archive.org/details/socialmovementor0000lofl/page/402

| isbn =0-202-30553-8

| page =[https://archive.org/details/socialmovementor0000lofl/page/402 402]

| url-access =registration

}}