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Jacob August Riis (/ r iː s / REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. [ 1 ]
Mary Phillips married widower Jacob Riis in 1907, as his second wife. [11] [12] They lived on a farm in New England, which she inherited, while the rest of the Riis estate was divided among his children. [8] [5] She was widowed after seven years, in 1914. [13] She died in a nursing home in New York City in 1967, aged 90 years. [3]
Jacob Hirsch Soboroff (born 1983) is an American journalist. He is known as a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC . Prior to his debut on the network in September 2015, he was the host of YouTube Nation [ 1 ] and a co-host of TakePart Live on Pivot TV .
Jacob Riis, author of How the Other Half Lives. Jacob Riis emigrated from Denmark in 1870 to New York City, eager to prove himself. Finding it difficult to find work, he found a home in the slums of New York's Lower East Side. [13] He went back to Denmark for a short time, returning to New York to become a police reporter.
Julius Chambers Nellie Bly. The muckrakers would become known for their investigative journalism, evolving from the eras of "personal journalism"—a term historians Emery and Emery used in The Press and America (6th ed.) to describe the 19th century newspapers that were steered by strong leaders with an editorial voice (p. 173)—and yellow journalism.
Rosamond Jacob (1888–1960), Irish writer; Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish novelist and poet; Alice James (1848–1892), American sister of novelist Henry and philosopher William; Derek Jarman (1942–1994), English painter, filmmaker and gardener; Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914–1977), Brazilian writer and social activist
Jacob Timothy Wallis Simons [1] (born 1978 or 1979) [2] is a British journalist and writer, who has been editor of The Jewish Chronicle since December 2021. [3]Born in London, he graduated with a first class degree in English from St Peter's College, Oxford, before completing a PhD in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in 2009.
Jacob Scher (May 25, 1908 – September 27, 1961) was an American journalist, lawyer and tenured journalism professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.