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Sex trafficking, scandal, and the transformation of journalism, 1885-1917 /

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this representation through highly public campaigns against...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Soderlund, Gretchen, 1970-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Table des matières:
  • White slavery and journalism's shifting axis of truth
  • William T. Stead and the "soul" of sensationalism
  • The journalism of reform and the reform of journalism
  • George Kibbe Turner, muckraking, and the brief reign of piteous facts
  • Authorizing skepticism: the New York Times and the demise of muckraking
  • From sensation to secrecy: the Rockefeller grand jury and its aftermath.