Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell was an American journalist and author (1857–1944) whose investigative exposé of Standard Oil became a landmark of muckraking journalism.
Her meticulous reporting on John D.
Rockefeller's business practices helped catalyze antitrust reform in the early twentieth century.
She approached the subject with the tenacity of an Ida Tarbell.
- muckrakerJournalist exposing corruption
- investigative journalismIn-depth reporting exposing wrongdoing
- Standard OilHistoric petroleum monopoly
- oil industryCommercial extraction of crude
- journalismNews gathering and dissemination
investigative · Rockefeller · monopoly · trust · exposé · reform · magazine · oil · Progressive Era · Gilded Age · reporter · fearless · crusader · industrialist · corruption · antitrust · big business · corporate greed
- Press FiguresJoseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Nellie Bly, Edward R. Murrow, Bob Woodward
- Progressive EraTheodore Roosevelt, progressivism, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, trust busting
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- journalistsreporter, correspondent, anchorwoman, news correspondent, journalist
- Dissident WritersGeorge Orwell, Noam Chomsky, Emma Goldman, Thomas Paine, Voltaire
journalistic stance toward corporate power
Ida TarbellJohn D. Rockefeller
robber baron · robber barons · monopolist · plutocrat · captains of industry