Muckraker any of a group of American writers , identified with pre – World War reform and expose literature . The muckrakers provided detailed , accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States . The muckraker’s work grew out of the yellow journalism of the 1890’s , which whetted the public appetite for news arrestingly presented and out of popular magazines , especially those established by S.S. McClure Frank A . Munsey & Peter F . Collier . The emergence of muckracking was heralded in the January , 1903 issue of McClure’s Magazine .
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