AbstractsCommunication

Different Approaches to Investigatory Journalism in the Muckraking Era

by Tim Vest Klein




Institution: Louisiana State University
Department: Mass Communication
Degree: MMC
Year: 2015
Keywords: journalism; Muckrakers; investigative journalism; investigatory journalism
Record ID: 2058421
Full text PDF: http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04092015-201659/


Abstract

The muckraking era is seen as a golden age of investigatory journalism. This thesis argues that within the muckraking era, there were a number of distinct types of journalism. To understand the muckrakers, we must recognize these different types of investigatory journalism and the potential influence the different types of storytelling can have on public opinion. Fourteen of the preeminent muckrakers are analyzed based on their most important investigatory journalism articles