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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Poor | |
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| Jacob Riis Tells How the Other Half Lives. Scribner's, 1890 | |
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| Edwin Markham Writes of the Horrors of Child Labor. Cosmopolitan, September 1906 | |
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| McClure's Magazine Tells How Young Women Are Turned to Prostitution. McClure's, November 1909 | |
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| John Steinbeck Introduces America to the Plight of California Migrants. San Francisco News, October 1936 | |
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| The Daytona Beach Morning Journal Spotlights the Ills of City's Slum Housing. June 18 and 19, 1957 | |
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| The Other America: Michael Harrington Reminds the Country of the Hidden Poor. The Other America, 1962 | |
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| Voice from the Hollows: Homer Bigart Writes of Poverty in Appalachia and Sets Off a War on Poverty. New York Times, October 20, 1963 | |
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| The Working Class | |
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| Labor Journalist John Swinton Demands Justice for Working People and Keeps the Idea of Unions Alive. John Swinton's Paper, May 1884 | |
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| Old Age at Forty: John A. Fitch Attacks Steel's Twelve-Hour Day and Twenty-Four-Hour Turn. American Magazine, March 1911 | |
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| William G. Shepherd of the United Press Describes the Horrors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. United Press, May 27, 1911 | |
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| Edward Levinson Lets a Strikebreaker Convict Himself in His Own Words. New York Post, October 25, 1934 | |
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| The New Masses Reveals Deaths from Silicosis in Hawk's Mountain Tunnel Project. New Masses, January 15, 1935 | |
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| The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Assigns Blame for the Centralia Mine Disaster. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 30, 1947 | |
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| Mary Heaton Vorse Exposes Corruption on the New York Waterfront. Harper's, April 1952 | |
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| United Mine Workers Journal Forces Federal Government to Name a New Mine Safety Official. United Mine Workers Journal, July 1-15, 1974 | |
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| Public Health and Safety | |
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| Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper Attacks the Swill Milk That Was Killing New York Children. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 8, 1858 | |
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| The San Francisco Examiner Has a Reporter Jump Overboard to Bring Harbor Ferry Safety. San Francisco Examiner, September 2, 1888 | |
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| The Chicago Tribune Brings Safer Fourth of July Celebrations. Chicago Tribune, July 5, 1899 | |
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| The Reader's Digest Breaks the Silence on Cigarettes and Death. Reader's Digest, December 1952 | |
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| Ralph Nader and The Nation Open the Fight for Automobile Safety. The Nation, April 11, 1959 | |
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| Nick Kotz of the Des Moines (Iowa) Register Finds Loopholes in Federal Meat Laws. Des Moines Register, July 16, 1967 | |
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| Blacks as Guinea Pigs: The Associated Press Uncovers the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Associated Press, July 25, 1972 | |
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| "Pinto Madness": Mother Jones's Mark Dowie Says Ford Motor Company Puts Costs Above Safety. Mother Jones, September-October 1977 | |
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| Larry Kramer Issues a Call for Action Against AIDS. New York Native, March 14-27, 1983 | |
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| Randy Shilts Reveals That Rock Hudson Has AIDS and the Public Attitude Toward the Disease Begins to Change. San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 1985 | |
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| Guinea Pigs of the Atomic Age: A New Mexico Reporter Breaks Government Silence. Albuquerque Tribune, November 15, 1993 | |
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| A Houston Television Station Reveals the Pattern of Ford-Firestone Deaths. Station KHOU, Houston, February 7, 2000 | |
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| Women, Their Rights, Nothing Less | |
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| A Meeting Is Called, and the Fight for Women's Suffrage Begins. Seneca County Courier, July 14, 1848 | |
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| Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Revolution Saves a Woman Accused of Infanticide from the Gallows. The Revolution, 1869 | |
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| The New Republic Takes Up Margaret Sanger's Crusade for Birth Control. New Republic, March 6, 1915 | |
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| Betty Friedan Writes of Limited Roles for Women and Begins a Revolution. The Feminine Mystique, 1963 | |
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| A New Kind of Women's Magazine Brings the Karen Silkwood Story to the Public. Ms., April 1975 | |
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| Politics | |
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| The Newport (Virginia) Mercury Publishes the Virginia Resolves and Sets America on the Course to Independence. Newport Mercury, June 24, 1765 | |
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| "King of Frauds": The New York Sun Exposes the Credit Mobilier. New York Sun, September 4, 1872 | |
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| Presidential Campaign of James G. Blaine Falters on Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. New York World, October 30, 1884 | |
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| Muckraker David Graham Phillips Tells How the U.S. Senate Has Been Bought by the Monied Interests. Cosmopolitan, March 1906 | |
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| Collier's Magazine Helps Break the Power of Speaker Joe Cannon. Collier's, May 23, 1908 | |
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| Young Journalist Edgar Snow Visits the Chinese Communists' Rural Strongholds and Introduces the Chinese Communists to the West. Red Star Over China, 1937 | |
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| Columnist Drew Pearson Turns the Tables on a McCarthyite Congressman. "Washington Merry-Go-Round," August 4, 1948 | |
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| Breaking from the "Silent Press," the Seattle Times Fights Anti-Communism and Saves a Professor's Job. Seattle Times, October 21, 1949 | |
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| Edward R. Murrow Defends an Air Force Lieutenant Unjustly Tarred in Anti-Communist Attacks. See It Now, CBS, October 20, 1953 | |
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| The Los Angeles Times Reports on the John Birch Society and Takes a Step Toward Becoming a Major American Newspaper. Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1961 | |
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| Life Magazine Brings Down a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Life, May 9, 1969 | |
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| Two Young Washington Post Reporters Follow the Money and Force the Resignation of a President. Washington Post, August 1, 1972 | |
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| The Miami Herald Finds Voter Fraud and Forces a Mayor from Office. Miami Herald, January 11, 1998 | |
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| Muckraking! | |
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| Helen Hunt Jackson Writes in Defense of Native Americans When Few Others Care. A Century of Dishonor, 1885 | |
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| Nellie Bly Spends Ten Harrowing Days in a Mad-House. New York World, October 16, 1887 | |
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| Lincoln Steffens Exposes the Shame of a City. McClure's, January 1903 | |
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| Muckraker Ida M. Tarbell Takes on John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. McClure's, 1904 | |
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| McClure's Magazine Brings Increased Regulation of America's Railroads. McClure's, December 1905 | |
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| The World-Telegram and Sun Does the Impossible and Stops Power Broker Robert Moses. World-Telegram and Sun, July 30, 1956 | |
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| Jessica Mitford Puts Funeral Directors Under New Scrutiny. The American Way of Death, 1963 | |
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| Seymour M. Hersh Reveals Illegal C.I.A. Spying in America. New York Times, December 22, 1974 | |
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| Secrets of the Parish: The National Catholic Reporter Unveils the Hidden Story of Priests Molesting Children. National Catholic Reporter, June 7, 1985 | |
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| Freedom | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison Announces Publication of Abolitionist Paper and Says "I Will Be Heard." The Liberator, 1831 | |
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| Illinois Editor Elijah Lovejoy Attacks Slavery and Is Shot to Death. The Observer, 1837 | |
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| The Most Respected Black Man in America Demands That Slavery Must End and Says Blacks Must Serve in Union Army. Frederick Douglass' Paper, June 2, 1854. Douglass' Monthly, October 1862, April 1863 | |
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| Solitary Voice: Ida B. Wells Attacks Lynchings. Southern Horrors, Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892 | |
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| A Report on a Race Riot in Illinois Brings Founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Independent, September 1908 | |
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| Condemning the "Rope and Faggot" of the South, the Chicago Defender Helps Create the Great Migration. Chicago Defender, October 7, 1916 | |
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| The New York World Unveils the New Ku Klux Klan. New York World, September 6, 1921 | |
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| John Howard Griffin Makes Himself Black to Experience Being a Negro in the South. Sepia, April to September, 1960 | |
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| A White Southern Editor Stands Up for Justice in Racist South. Lexington (Mississippi) Advertiser, June 13, 1963 | |
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| The Detroit Free Press Reveals Needless Killings in 1967 Race Riot. Detroit Free Press, September 3, 1967 | |
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| Ghosts of Mississippi: The Jackson Clarion-Ledger Reopens the Case of the Medgar Evers Murder. Clarion-Ledger, October 1, 1989 | |
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| Sports | |
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| The Chicago Tribune Demands Reforms to Stop the Deaths and Carnage in College Football. Chicago Tribune, November 26, 1905 | |
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| Say It Ain't So: Hugh Fullerton Charges That the Chicago White Sox Threw the 1919 World Series. Chicago Herald and Examiner, October 6, 1919 | |
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| The Black and Communist Press Lead the Way to Integration of Baseball. The Daily Worker, March 7, 1945. Pittsburgh Courier, April 21, 1945 | |
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| The New York Herald Tribune Stops Baseball Players' Strike Over Jackie Robinson. New York Herald Tribune, May 9, 1947 | |
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| "Cage Star's Story of 'Fix'": The New York Journal-American Cracks a Basketball Betting Scandal and Shocks American Sports. New York Journal-American, January 18, 1951 | |
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| Jim Bouton Writes Honestly About Baseball and Changes Sports and Sports Writing. Look, June 2, 1970 | |
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| St. Paul Pioneer Press Reveals Academic Cheating in U-Minnesota Basketball Program. St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 10, 1999 | |
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| Conservation | |
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| William Bartram Journeys Through the Wilderness in Early America. Travels, 1791 | |
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| The New York Tribune Asks That the Adirondacks Be Saved. New York Tribune, September 2, 1883 | |
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| George Bird Grinnell Defends Birds from the Demands of Fashion. Forest and Stream, February 11, 1886 | |
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| John Muir Demands Protection of the Yosemite Valley. Century, August 1890 | |
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| Promising He Doesn't Have to Come to the Office (That Would be Like "Putting a Grizzly Into a Swallow-tail and Patent-Leather Pumps"), The Ladies' Home Journal Hires Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton and Thereby Helps Create the American Boy Scouts. Ladies' Home Journal, May 1902 | |
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| An Urban Planner Creates the Appalachian Trail. Journal of the American Institute of Architects, October 1921 | |
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| Bernard DeVoto Says the West Belongs to All. Harper's, January 1947 | |
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| The Writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas Win Friends for the Everglades. The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947 | |
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| Sigurd F. Olson and Harold H. Martin Plea for Protection of the Quetico-Superior Wilderness. Saturday Evening Post, September 25, 1948 | |
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| Challenging the Washington Post, Justice William O. Douglas Takes Editorial Writers on a Hike and Saves the C & O Canal. Washington Post, January 3 and 19, 1954 | |
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| Rachel Carson Creates a Firestorm by Saying That Pesticides Are Killing Birds and Mammals. Silent Spring, 1962 | |
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| Editor Les Line and New Reporters Reinvigorate Audubon Magazine. Audubon, March 1975 | |
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| America at War | |
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| Isaiah Thomas Reports the Battles at Lexington and Concord, and the American Revolution Begins. Massachusetts Spy, May 3, 1775 | |
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| "Sunshine Soldiers and Summer Patriots": Thomas Paine Helps Form a Nation. January 10, 1776 | |
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| George W. Smalley Covers the Battle of Antietam and Elevates American War Reporting. New York Tribune, September 1862 | |
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| Century Magazine Publishes "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," Saves General Grant from Bankruptcy, and Creates Interest in the Civil War that the United States Had Seemed It Wished to Forget. Century, November 1884 to November 1887 | |
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| James Creelman of the New York World Reveals Horrors in Japanese Conquest of Port Arthur, Manchuria. New York World, December 12, 1894 | |
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| This Is London: Edward R. Murrow on Radio Describes the German Blitz. CBS Radio, September 25, 1940 | |
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| The Holocaust Exposed: How Could the World Not Know? Jewish Frontier, November 1942. New York Herald Tribune, May 1, 1945 | |
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| As Helicopters Round Up a Handful of Vietcong Soldiers, David Halberstam Sees "An Endless, Relentless War." The Making of a Quagmire, 1965 | |
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| Seymour M. Hersh and the Dispatch News Service Reveal the Killings at My Lai and Another Tragedy of the Vietnam War. Dispatch News Service, November 13, 1969 | |
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| The New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers and Explains a War. New York Times, June 13, 1971 | |
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| Roy Gutman of Newsday Uncovers Bosnian Death Camps. Newsday, August 2, 1992 | |
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| The Press | |
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| The John Peter Zenger Case: The Truth Shall Make You Free. New-York Weekly Journal, August 18, 1735 | |
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| The First Penny Paper: The New York Sun Announces a Paper for All New Yorkers. New York Sun, September 3, 1833 | |
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| James Gordon Bennett Talks to a Madam and Creates a Journalism Practice: the Interview. New York Herald, June 4, 1836 | |
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| A Muckraking Magazine Reveals the Truth Behind Patent Medicines. Collier's, November 4, 1905 | |
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| Columnist Heywood Broun Demands Formation of a Newspaper Union. New York World-Telegram, August 7, 1933 | |
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| Chicago Daily News Identifies Editors on State Payroll. Chicago Daily News, April 14, 1949 | |
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| Jack Gould Forces the New York Times to Stop Its Reporters and Editors from Accepting Christmas Gifts and Junkets. New York Times, October 27, 1959 | |
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| New York Times Reporter A. H. Raskin Gets Times Labor Relations Negotiator to Resign. New York Times, April 1, 1963 | |
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| Esquire Magazine Publishes a New Kind of Nonfiction Reporting and Changes American Magazines and Books. Esquire, March 1965 | |
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| Three Reporters Who Lied--and Got Caught. Philadelphia Magazine, April 1967. Detroit Free Press, May 23, 1973. Washington Post, April 19, 1981 | |
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| Reporters Avenge the Killing of Their Colleague. Investigative Reporters and Editors, series beginning March 13, 1977 | |
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| The American Journalism Review Takes on the Issue of Reporters Accepting Speaking Fees. American Journalism Review, May 1994 | |
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| Crime and Punishment | |
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| Everybody's Magazine Stops the Leasing of Convicts from Georgia Prisons. Everybody's, June 1908 | |
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| The Ponzi Scheme Is Exposed, and a New Term Is Added to the American Vocabulary. Boston Post, August 11, 1920 | |
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| The United Press Asks a Question and Creates a Tradition: the FBI's Most-Wanted List. United Press, February 7, 1949 | |
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| Ronnie Dugger of the Texas Observer Covers Night-Rider Shootings of Three Black Youths and Helps Set the Observer on Its Way as a Liberal Voice in Conservative Texas. Texas Observer, November 2, 1955 | |
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| Justice and Injustice: The Reporter as Criminal Investigator. Chicago Daily News, May 31, 1924. Houston Post, November 4, 1963. Miami Herald, February 5, 1967 | |
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| The Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser Tells How Experimental Drugs Are Tested on Prison Inmates. Montgomery Advertiser, January 10, 1969 | |
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| The Philadelphia Inquirer Breaks Police Silence on Dubious Confessions. Philadelphia Inquirer, 1977 | |
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| Reginald Stuart in Emerge Magazine Writes of Unfairness of Mandatory Minimum Sentences, and a Woman Is Freed from Prison. Emerge, May 1996 | |
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| Northwestern University Student Journalists Free an Innocent Man from Death Row. 1999 | |
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| Americana | |
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| Gold in California. California Star, June 10, 1848. New York Herald, September 15, 1848 | |
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| Horace Greeley Goes West and Calls for Construction of a Transcontinental Railroad. New York Tribune, October 1859 | |
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| Sarah Josepha Hale and Godey's Lady's Book Convince Lincoln to Create Thanksgiving. Godey's Lady's Book, September 1863 | |
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| Not Waiting for Millionaires, Joseph Pulitzer Asks His Readers for Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes to Erect the Statue of Liberty. New York World, March 16, 1885 | |
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| The Village Voice's Richard Goldstein Takes the New Pop Scene Seriously and Helps Introduce America to a New Art Form, Rock Music, and to Itself. Village Voice, 1968 | |
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| The Grand Forks (North Dakota) Herald Holds Its Community Together After a Disastrous Flood. Grand Forks Herald, April 27, 1997 | |
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| An Afterword | |
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| Permissions | |