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As a part of the Progressive Era, reporters known as muckrakers went to unrivaled extents in their investigations to expose corruption to the public. Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst were dominant newspapers led the way for the inception of progressive muckraking in magazines, albeit for perhaps questionable intentions.
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Nellie Bly, portrait from the Library of Congress
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Both Hearst and Pulitzer conducted many
other similar stunts of muckraking. |
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