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Bookmark or Share- Muckrakers and Their Major Investigations - ThoughtCoMuckrakers were journalists and investigative reporters who wrote about corruption and injustice between 1890 and 1920. The term was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, who thought they went too far. Muckrakers came from all levels of society and risked their livelihoods and lives by their work. In many cases, their work did bring improvements.
- Investigative Journalists: The Muckrakers - Journalism in ActionMuckrakers were investigative journalists during the Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) who shone a light on corrupt business and government leaders as well as major social problems like racism. Ida B. Wells wrote graphically about the horrors of lynching in the South.
- Muckraker | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | BritannicaThe intense public interest aroused by articles critical of political corruption, industrial monopolies, and fraudulent business practices rallied journalists, novelists, and reformers of all sorts to sharpen their criticism of American society.
- Muckrakers [ushistory.org]Collectively called muckrakers, a brave cadre of reporters exposed injustices so grave they made the blood of the average American run cold. Steffens Takes on Corruption. The first to strike was Lincoln Steffens. In 1902, he published an article in McClure's magazine called " Tweed Days in St. Louis."
- Ida Tarbell | Biography, Accomplishments, Books, Muckraker, Standard ...Ida Tarbell, American investigative journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), which helped define the trend to investigate, expose, and crusade in liberal journals of the day that came to be known as muckraking.
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