id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1313 Muckraker - Wikipedia .html text/html 4795 497 67 While some muckrakers had already worked for reform newspapers of the personal journalism variety, such as Steffens who was a reporter for the New York Evening Post under Edwin Lawrence Godkin,[10] other muckrakers had worked for yellow journals before moving on to magazines around 1900, such as Charles Edward Russell who was a journalist and editor of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World.[11] Publishers of yellow journals, such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, were more intent on increasing circulation through scandal, crime, entertainment and sensationalism.[12] Nellie Bly, another yellow journalist, used the undercover technique of investigation in reporting Ten Days in a Mad-House, her 1887 exposé on patient abuse at Bellevue Mental Hospital, first published as a series of articles in The World newspaper and then as a book.[15] Nellie would go on to write more articles on corrupt politicians, sweat-shop working conditions and other societal injustices. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1313.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1313.txt