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investigative journalism  

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  • Investigative journalism grew out of the muckraking tradition established by Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Ida Tarbell, and others in the early 20th century. The muckrakers essentially created a new journalistic form, one that exposed social ills and government, personal, or corporate misbehavior. [Source: Encyclopedia of Public Relations; Investigative Journalism]

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