Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World

Anya Schiffrin

The New Press, 2014 - History - 309 pages

Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy. But how many people know about the role that muckraking has played around the world?

This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing journalism, spanning one hundred years and every continent. Carefully curated by prominent international journalists working in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, Global Muckraking includes Ken Saro-Wiwa’s defense of the Ogoni people in the Niger Δ Horacio Verbitsky's uncovering of the gruesome disappearance of political detainees in Argentina; Gareth Jones’s coverage of the Ukraine famine of 1932–33; missionary newspapers’ coverage of Chinese foot binding in the nineteenth century; Dwarkanath Ganguli’s exposé of the British "coolie" trade in nineteenth-century Assam, India; and many others.

Edited by the noted author and journalist Anya Schiffrin, Global Muckraking is a sweeping introduction to international journalism that has galvanized the world’s attention. In an era when human rights are in the spotlight and the fate of newspapers hangs in the balance, here is both a riveting read and a sweeping argument for why the world needs long-form investigative reporting.

Contents

• introduction: 1
• LABOR ABUSES: 15
• 1 ED Morel: 17
• 2 BenjamIn Saldaña Rocca: 22
• 3 Dwarkanath Ganguli: 28
• 4 Henry Woodd Nevinson: 33
• 5 Christian Parenti: 40
• 6 Taufik Ulhadi and Usmandi Andeska: 45
• 7 Alan Butterfield and Jim Nelson: 49
• 8 Liu Zhiyi: 54
• 9 E Benjamin Skinner: 59
• ANTICOLONIALISM: 65
• 10 Fidel A Reyes: 67
• 11 Albert Londres: 71
• 12 Nguyen An NInh: 77
• 13 A Prime Example of British Civilization: 82
• CORRUPTION: 87
• 14 Liu Binyan: 89
• 15 Pang Jiaoming: 95
• 16 Janio De Freitas: 101
• 17 Sheila Coronel: 104
• 18 Khadija Ismayilova: 110
• OIL AND MINING: 115
• 19 Ken SaroWiwa: 117
• 20 Carlos Cardoso: 122
• 21 Rafael Marques: 127
• 22 Ken Silverstein: 133
• 23 Lisa Girion: 140
• 24 Tatiana Escárraga: 147
• THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTERS: 153
• 25 Destruction of The City of San Juan: 155
• 26 Qian Gang: 159
• 27 Liu Jianqiang and Cheng Gong: 164
• FOOD SHORTAGES AND FAMINE: 169
• 28 Gareth Jones: 171
• 29 Ian Stephens: 177
• 30 Mike Muller: 180
• MILITARY AND POLICE: 187
• 31 Euclides Da Cunha: 189
• 32 Benjamin Pogrund: 194
• 33 Jacques Pauw: 200
• 34 Horacio Verbitsky: 205
• 35 Patricia Verdugo: 211
• 38 Alma Guillermoprieto: 229
• RURAL LIFE: 237
• 39 Robin Hyde: 239
• 40 Palagummi Sainath: 246
• 41 Anupam Mishra: 255
• 42 Henry Nxumalo: 260
• 43 Carlos Salinas Maldonado: 266
• WOMEN: 269
• 44 Alicia Little: 271
• 45 Mae Azango: 276
• 46 Nafisa Shah: 280
• 47 Elisabeth Wynhausen: 286
• Acknowledgments: 293
• Permissions: 295
• Notes: 297
• About the Contributors: 305

About the author

Anya Schiffrin is the director of the media and communications program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She spent ten years working overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia. She lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Editor: Anya Schiffrin
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: The New Press, 2014
• ISBN: 1595589732, 9781595589736
• Length: 309 pages
• Subjects: History / World; Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism; Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries; Social Science / Media Studies