22 nov 1902 anni - Ida Tarbell: early 20th century investigative journalist

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Ida Tarbell, in full Ida Minerva Tarbell, (born November 5, 1857, Erie county, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 6, 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut), American journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904). She was among a group of so-called muckrakers who helped establish the field of investigative journalism.

The History of the Standard Oil Company, originally a serial that ran in McClure’s, is one of the most thorough accounts of the rise of a business monopoly and its use of unfair practices; her reporting contributed to the subsequent breakup of Standard Oil, which was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The articles also helped to define a growing trend of investigation, exposé, and crusading in liberal journals of the day, a technique that in 1906 U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt labeled muckraking....

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