Yellow journalism sensationalized stories to grab attention and make money quickly without verifying the truth, while investigative journalism exposed social issues and corruption in government and businesses to inform the public and act as a watchdog. Journalists like Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair were known as "muckrakers" for their investigative exposes through photography, books, and articles that brought attention to issues like poor urban living conditions, unfair business practices of Standard Oil, and unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry, causing public outrage and new laws and regulations to be passed. Theodore Roosevelt supported muckraking journalism but felt some writers were too focused on only highlighting problems without solutions.

2. Yellow Journalism
• Sensationalized
• Make quick money
• Grab attention
• Elicit emotions
• Tell the truth?
– Nah, just make money

3. Investigative Journalism
• Expose social ills and corporate and political
corruption
• Ignorance is NOT bliss
• Turned newspapers into the “watch dog” for
the people

4. How are the similar and how are
they different?

6. Jacob Riis
• a Danish American social
reformer, "muckraking"
journalist and social
documentary photographer.
• Considered the “Father of
Photography”
• How the Other Half Lives
• Advocacy for urban renewal

11. Ida Tarbell
• an American teacher, author,
and journalist.
• She was one of the leading
"muckrakers" of the
Progressive era
• The History of the Standard
Oil Company
• Public outrage
• Prosecute companies for
violate Sherman Anti-Trust
Act

13. Upton Sinclair
• American author
• Exposed conditions in the U.S.
meat packing industry
• The Jungle
• Caused a public uproar
• Pure Food and Drug Act and the
Meat Inspection Act.
• a muckraking exposé of American
journalism that publicized the issue
of yellow journalism and the
limitations of the “free press” in
the United States.
• The first code of ethics for
journalists was created

14. Theodore Roosevelt and Muckrakers
• The term "muckraker" was taken from the
fictional character in Pilgrim's Progress, a man
who was assigned to rake muck endlessly, never
lifting his eyes from his drudgery
• Believed that some of the writers were going too
far
– Too focused on what was going wrong in the world
• Liked what they were doing, but carefully
monitored what was going on