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Muckraker David Graham Philips believed that the tag of muckraker brought about the end of the movement as it was easier to group and attack the journalists. [ 25 ] The term eventually came to be used in reference to investigative journalists who reported about and exposed such issues as crime, fraud, waste, public health and safety, graft, and ...
Confessions of a Muckraker, with James Boyd (1979) Alice in Blunderland, with John Kidner (1983) Fiasco, with James Boyd (1983) Inside the NRA: Armed and Dangerous (1996) Washington Money-Go-Round (1997) Peace, War and Politics: An Eyewitness Account, with Daryl Gibson (1999) Fiction. The Cambodia File, with Bill Pronzini (1983) Control (1989 ...
Adams was a muckraker, known for exposing public-health injustices. He was the son of Myron Adams, Jr., a minister, and Hester Rose Hopkins. Adams attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York from 1887 to 1891. He also attended a semester at Union College. In 1907, Adams divorced his wife, Elizabeth Ruffner Noyes, after having two daughters.
Geraldo Rivera (born Gerald Rivera; July 4, 1943) [1] [2] is an American journalist, attorney, author, and political commentator who worked at the Fox News Channel from 2001 to 2023. [3]
Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer.She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.
Irwin continued to write articles, some in the muckraking style, until the outbreak of World War I. He sailed to Europe in August 1914 as one of the first American correspondents. According to the media historians Edwin and Michael Emery "[Irwin's] beats on the battles of Ypres and the first German use of poison gas were also printed in the ...
The cast of “Friends” is well known for being besties, but that developed over time. During an appearance on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow ...
Muckrakers are often claimed as the professional ancestors of modern advocacy journalists; for example: Ida M. Tarbell, Ida B. Wells, Nellie Bly, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone. 20th and 21st century advocacy journalists include: Oprah Winfrey, who used her talk show to give visibility to causes, groups, and ...