Muckrakers were journalists who went above and beyond traditional reporting to expose corrupt government or business practices.
Nellie Bly was a famous muckraker who became associated with Joseph Pulitzer for her undercover work exposing unfair treatment of employees and dishonest behavior by the government.
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The Muckrakers was created in 1997.
The goal of the muckrakers was to bring about reform through their writings.
Government corruption was fought by progressives and muckrakers- apex
Nellie Bly and Lincoln Steffens
Man with the Muck-rake, or the person who rakes the soiled material from an animal stall is the idea behind muckrakers. It began around 1900 to WW1. We would call the type of reporting now as tabloid journalism.