McClure's Magazine

(noun)

A monthly magazine credited with starting muckraking journalism. The magazine published influential exposes of US businesses by Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker and other leading muckrakers.

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Examples of McClure's Magazine in the following topics:

  • Social Criticism

    • The term "muckraker" was used during the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who largely wrote for popular magazines.
    • Muckraking magazines—notably McClure's—took on corporate monopolies and crooked political machines while raising public awareness of chronic urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, and social issues such as child labor.
    • McClure, emphasized factual reporting but also aimed for a mixture of, "reliability and sparkle" to interest a mass audience.
  • The Muckrakers

    • Muckrakers were journalists who exposed waste, corruption, and scandal in the highly influential new medium of national magazines, such as McClure's Magazine.
    • Louis", in McClure's October 1902 issue was called the first muckraking article.
    • McClure and John Sanborn Phillips started McClure's Magazine in May 1893.
    • Louis, in October, 1902, in McClure's Magazine.
    • Navy (after Henry Reuterdahl published a controversial article in McClure's).
  • The Antecedents of Progressivism

    • While some muckrakers, such as Steffens, had already worked for reform newspapers of the personal journalism variety, other muckrakers had worked for yellow journals before moving on to magazines around 1900, such as Charles Edward Russell.
    • McClure, also emphasized factual reporting but also aimed for a mixture of "reliability and sparkle" to interest a mass audience.
  • The Muckrakers

    • At This time, magazines such as Collier's Weekly, Munsey's Magazine and McClure's Magazine were already in wide circulation and were read avidly by the growing middle class.
    • The January 1903 issue of McClure's is considered to be the official beginning of muckraking journalism.
    • Louis. " While some muckrakers started out writing for reform newspapers of the personal journalism variety, others began their careers in "yellow journalism" (journalism of questionable taste and accuracy) before moving on to magazines.
  • Features of Progressivism

    • Known by Teddy Roosevelt as those "raking up all the muck," Muckrakers were journalists who exposed waste, corruption, and scandal, mainly in the highly influential new medium of national magazines.
  • Elements of Reform

    • Muckrakers were journalists who exposed waste, corruption, and scandal in the highly influential new medium of national magazines, such as McClure's Magazine.
  • Relativistic Kinetic Energy

    • Relativistic kinetic energy can be expressed as: $E_{k} = \frac{mc^{2}}{\sqrt{1 - (v/c)^{2})}} - mc^{2}$ where $m$ is rest mass, $v$ is velocity, $c$ is speed of light.
    • $KE = mc^2-m_0c^2$, where m is the relativistic mass of the object and m0 is the rest mass of the object.
    • The popular connection between Einstein, E = mc2, and the atomic bomb was prominently indicated on the cover of Time magazine (July 1946) by the writing of the equation on the mushroom cloud itself.
  • Summary and references

    • New York: McGraw Hill.
    • TWICE Magazine; February 12: 12.
  • The budget

    • For example, the firm must establish an advertising budget as part of the marketing budget and allocate expenditures to various types of advertising media—television, newspapers, magazines.
  • References

    • Fellman, B. (2002, February).Leading the libraries.Yale Alumni Magazine, 65(4).Retrieved September 27, 2002, from the World Wide Web: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_02/libraries.html
    • Retrieved September 27, 2002, from the World Wide Web: http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A3429.cfm
    • McKenzie, J. (2000).Winning with information literacy.From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal.
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