2019年8月19日 · Muckrakers were investigative reporters and writers during the Progressive Era (1890–1920) who wrote about corruption and injustices in order to bring about changes in society. Publishing books and articles in magazines such as McClure's and Cosmopolitan, journalists such as Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Wells, Ida Tarbell, Florence Kelley ...

2024年10月8日 · Armed with pens, typewriters, and raw courage, muckrakers took it upon themselves to expose injustice wherever they saw it, ushering in a new Progressive Era of social reform. These courageous 19th-century journalists changed the field—and the country—forever.

The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications.

Books shelved as muckraker: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America by Stephani...

muckraker, any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé literature. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States .

Books shelved as muckrakers: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Exposés...

Gathering the most significant pieces published during the heyday of the muckraking movement, The Muckrakers brings vividly to life this unique era of exposure and self-examination. For each...