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New investigative authors echo themes of original muckrakers

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From: Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal
Date: 20040301
Author:Weinberg, Steve

American journalism and history courses taught on today's university campuses usually devote at least a few minutes to a group of authors who wrote about 100 years ago and collectively became known as the "muckrakers." The best-known of the bunch, then and now, are Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, David Graham Phillips and Ray Stannard Baker.

As Cecelia Tichi, a Vanderbilt University English professor, perused new investigative books at the opening of the 21st century, she realized that quite a few seemed to echo the old muckrakers' techniques and themes. Unable to excise that thought from her ...

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