Benjamin hampton biography muckraker

The main objective of Hampton's magazine was to give information on controversial political issues.
Born in 1875 to a family of newspaper entrepreneurs.
Ben Hampton was a rare talent; his work was well done.

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Macomb’s Ben Hampton: the first modern multi-media man By Bill Knight Benjamin Bowles Hampton was born in Macomb in the 19th century and became one of the first modern “media men.” (Most people who claim the label may be medium men, for two reasons: first, they work in a single medium -- newspapers, film, etc.; next, they are medium men because their work is neither rare nor well done.) Ben Hampton was a rare talent; his work was well done. In his 56 years, he was like few contemporary figures, perhaps Rupert Murdoch or Michael Moore, but more. Film critic and historian Richard Griffith wrote, “Hampton was a sort of covert idealist. [The] pioneer movie financier and producer [has] a partisan point of view which finds comparatively few voices today. He was in love with American business enterprise.” Hampton was born in Macomb on March 8, 1875, to a family of newspaper entrepreneurs. Hampton’s grandfather Benjamin Randolph Hampton had owned the weekly Macomb Journal in the late 1850s and again from 1865 until 1881 (a period when he also was a state

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Knight: Macomb’s Ben Hampton became muckraker, multi-media man

Benjamin Bowles Hampton was just 56 when he died 87 years ago this week, but the Macomb native packed a lot into his life, with careers ranging from a small-town newspaperman and groundbreaking muckraking publisher to a business executive and a groundbreaking filmmaker.

“Hampton was a sort of covert idealist,” wrote film critic and historian Richard Griffith. “[The] pioneer movie financier and producer [had] a partisan point of view which finds comparatively few voices today.”

Born in 1875 to a family of newspaper entrepreneurs. Hampton’s grandfather owned the then-weekly Macomb Journal off and on from the 1850s to the 1880s. He and son David then launched the Illinois By-Stander, where young Ben worked. Ben and his father in 1895 bought the Galesburg Evening Mail, where he introduced “novelties to the community,” wrote colleague, advertising innovator and author Earnest Elmo Calkins, “ – two and three-column heads, a greatly extended telegraph service, a broader treatment of the news, [and] a livelier pursuit of

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Muckraker

Progressive-Era reform-minded investigative journalist in the US

"Muckrakers" redirects here. For the band, see The Muckrakers.

For the song by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, see Muckraker (song).

The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications. The modern term generally references investigative journalism or watchdog journalism; investigative journalists in the US are occasionally called "muckrakers" informally.

The muckrakers played a highly visible role during the Progressive Era.^[1] Muckraking magazines—notably McClure's of the publisher S. S. McClure—took on corporate monopolies and political machines, while trying to raise public awareness and anger at urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, prostitution, and child labor.^[2] Most of the muckrakers wrote nonfiction, but fictional exposés often had a major impact, too, such a