Global Muckraking : : 100 Years of Investigative Journalism From Around the World
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Labor abuses -- Anticolonialism -- Corruption -- Oil and mining -- The environment and natural disasters -- Food shortages and famine -- Military and police -- Rural life -- Women.
"Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy. But how many people know about the role that muckraking has played around the world? This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing journalism, spanning one hundred years and every continent. Carefully curated by prominent international journalists working in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, Global Muckraking includes Ken Saro-Wiwa's defense of the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta; Horacio Verbitsky's uncovering of the gruesome disappearance of political detainees in Argentina; Gareth Jones's coverage of the Ukraine famine of 1932-33; missionary newspapers' coverage of Chinese foot binding in the nineteenth century; Dwarkanath Ganguli's expose; of the British "coolie" trade in nineteenth-century Assam, India; and many others. Edited by the noted author and journalist Anya Schiffrin, Global Muckraking is a sweeping introduction to international journalism that has galvanized the world's attention. In an era when human rights are in the spotlight and the fate of newspapers hangs in the balance, here is both a riveting read and a sweeping argument for why the world needs long-form investigative reporting. "-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : The New Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781595589736
1595589732
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Schiffrin, Anya, 1962-
SUBJECTS
Investigative reporting.