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When Did Muckraking Start?

Maya Lin-Takahashi • • 6 min read
When Did Muckraking Start?

The emergence of muckraking was heralded in the January 1903 issue of McClure's Magazine by articles on municipal government, labour, and trusts, written by Lincoln Steffens

Lincoln Steffens
He launched a series of articles in McClure's, called "Tweed Days in St. Louis", that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his leftist values.
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, Ray Stannard Baker, and Ida M. Tarbell.

When was muckraking first used?

Theodore Roosevelt coined the term "muckraker" during a speech in 1906. He compared investigative reporters to the narrow-minded figure in John Bunyan's 17th-century religious fable, "The Pilgrim's Progress": the "man that could look no way but downwards, with a muckrake in his hand."

Who invented muckraker?

The term “muckraker” was first used by Teddy Roosevelt in a speech in 1906 when he was President of the United States. His quote was both memorable and was about William Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism.

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