It is worth remembering that the journalist who pioneered investigative reporting at the turn of the 20 th century grew up wanting to be a scientist. Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell ...
S.S. McClure feared being held back by his 'cursed mediocre versatility.” Ida Tarbell resolved to be free; it followed, in her mind, that she 'must be a spinster.” McClure channeled his versatility ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Paula Treckel introduces Ida Tarbell and what influenced her to take on writing about exposing the Standard Oil Company. Historian Paula ...
ALL IN THE DAY’S WORK—Ida M. Tarbell—Macmillan ($3.50). Few contemporary periodicals have had such an exciting career as McClure’s Magazine. It launched the muckraking movement, first printed O. Henry ...
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has acquired the 2015 Black List biopic script Ida Tarbell by Mark McDevitt for producer Tom Drumm of Think Tank Management & Production to produce. The Irish writer McDevitt moved ...
TITUSVILLE — The house on East Main Street is known as the childhood home of Ida Tarbell, a famous "muckraker" who pioneered investigative journalism. However, it was also home to painter Sarah ...
In this article The Fluidsdoc takes advantage of a rainy day and allows his mind to ramble onto seldom trod philosophical pathways. A trip back to the early part of the 20th Century proves instructive ...
Once upon a time, during a period of great technological innovation but also great economic inequality, journalism was striving to define its role in a fractious democracy. Divisions between ...