Never heard of him? Well, how about his magazine, McClure's, which published the work of Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens more than a century ago? Dean Starkman of Columbia Journalism Review discussed his influence at March’s Narrative Arc Conference: "McClure and the muckrakers, after a fashion and without intending to, crafted what can be called a journalism ideology of sorts, an ideology of anti-corruption, a keystone value of American journalism to this day."
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