JOUR 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Saturday Evening Post, The Chicago Defender, New-York Tribune

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Journalism
• Course: JOUR 200
• Professor: Ira Chinoy

Document Summary

Format: fill in the blank, short answer questions. Wells in memphis, the main issue she focused on as a journalist and what the red record was. Wrote about her court case where she was asked to move cars although she bought a first class ticket in a religious paper living way. Purchased ownership of memphis free speech and headlight in 1889 and became the editor. Used her paper to investigate lynchings in memphis and throughout the south. The red record: tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynching in the united states. Killed for being in a relationship with a white woman. Precursor to what we call data journalism giving people the evidence, gathering information from people. Origins of the term muckraking, context for muckraking. Progressive era: first major urban-based reform movement. Muckrakers: used media to bring attention to issue they believed to be wrong. Public outrage prompted the reform until the public grew sick of the daily muckraking.