Author: Arthur WeinbergPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Muckrakers
Author: Arthur WeinbergThe Muckrakers
Author: Arthur WeinbergPublisher:
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Category : Political corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Muckrakers. The Era in Journalism that Moved America to Reform-the Most Significant Magazine Articles of 1902-1912. Edited and with Notes by Arthur and Lila Weinberg. (Second Impression.).
Author: Arthur WEINBERG (and WEINBERG (Lila))Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Muckrakers ; the Era in Journalism that Moved America to Reform-the Most Significant Magazine ...
Author: Muckrakers : the era in journalism that moved America to reform- the most significan magazine articles of 1902-1912
Author: Arthur Myron ed WeinbergPublisher:
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
MUCKRAKERS: THE ERA IN JOURNALISM THAT MOVED AMERICA TO REFORM.
Author: ED WEINBERGThe Muckrakers
Author: Arthur WeinbergPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
As the twentieth century opened, Americans were jolted out of their laissez-faire complacency by detailed exposures, in journalism and fiction, of the corruption underlying the country's greatest institutions. This rude awakening was the work of the muckrakers, as Theodore Roosevelt christened these press agents for reform. From 1902, when it latched onto such mass circulation magazines as Collier's and McClure's, until it merged into the Progressive movement in 1912, muckraking relentlessly pricked the nation's social conscience by exposing the abuses of industry and politics. Ranging in tone from the scholarly to the sensational, muckraking articles attacked food adulteration, unscrupulous insurance practices, fraudulent claims for patent medicines, and links between government and vice. When muckrakers raised their voices against child labor, graft, monopoly, unsafe mill conditions, and the white slave trade of poor immigrant girls, they found a receptive audience. "I aimed at the public's heart," wrote Upton Sinclair about The Jungle, "and by accident I hit it in the stomach." 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 article, Arthur and Lila Weinberg provide concise commentary on the background of its subject and the specific and long-range repercussions of its publication. The volume features the work of both journalists and fiction writers, including Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Thomas W. Lawson, Charles Edward Russell, and Mark Sullivan. Eloquent and uncompromising, the muckrakers shocked America from a state of lethargy into Progressive reform. This generous volume vividly captures the urgency of their quest.
The Muckrakers
Author: Aileen GallagherPublisher: Rosen Classroom
ISBN: 9781404208650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Learn about the journalists who helped change America.
More Than a Muckraker
Author: Robert C. KochersbergerPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870499340
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Rockefeller's Standard Oil and the fight for antitrust legislation, she was also a thorough biographer, a social commentator and speaker, and a women's rights advocate - of sorts - during a time when most women did not work (or write) outside the home.
Journalism 1908
Author: Betty Houchin WinfieldPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082626669X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The year 1908 was not remarkable by most accounts, but it was an auspicious year for journalism. As newspapers sought to recover from big-city yellow journalism and circulation wars that reached their boiling point a few years earlier during the Spanish-American War, press clubs began to champion higher education. And schools dedicated to journalism education, led by the University of Missouri, began to emerge. Now sanctioned by universities, journalism could teach acceptable behavior and establish credentials. It was nothing less than the birth of a profession. Journalism—1908 opens a window on mass communication a century ago. It tells how the news media in the United States were fundamentally changed by the creation of academic departments and schools of journalism, by the founding of the National Press Club, and by exciting advances that included early newsreels, the introduction of halftones to print, and even changes in newspaper design. Journalism educator Betty Houchin Winfield has gathered a team of well-known media scholars, all specialists in particular areas of journalism history, to examine the status of their profession in 1908: news organizations, business practices, media law, advertising, forms of coverage from sports to arts, and more. Various facets of journalism are explored and situated within the country’s history and the movement toward reform and professionalism—not only formalized standards and ethics but also labor issues concerning pay, hours, and job differentiation that came with the emergence of new technologies. This overview of a watershed year is national in scope, examining early journalism education programs not only at Missouri but also at such schools as Colgate, Washington and Lee, Wisconsin, and Columbia. It also reviews the status of women in the profession and looks beyond big-city papers to Progressive Era magazines, the immigrant press, and African American publications. Journalism—1908 commemorates a century of progress in the media and, given the place of Missouri’s School of Journalism in that history, is an appropriate celebration of that school’s centennial. It is a lode of information about journalism education history that will surprise even many of those in the field and marks a seminal year with lasting significance for the profession.