Applegate (journalism, Middle Tennessee State U.) profiles 53 journalists who have spoken for or against particular political or social positions, and the editors of newspapers and other periodicals t
Professor Edd Applegate profiles the men and women who either wrote muckraking journalism or edited publications that featured muckraking articles. Some of the most important figures of journalism are
The muckrakers (yet another term coined by Teddy Roosevelt) came into power largely as a response to the yellow journalism of the era directly preceding. They fed the hunger for moral, social and poli