Collier's Weekly

Collier's Weekly was a American magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. As a result Collier's pioneering investigative journalism, Collier's Weekly established reputation as a proponent of social reform. When attempts by various companies to sue Peter Collier ended in failure, other magazines became involved in what Theodore Roosevelt described unflatteringly as "muckraking journalism."

Editors and writers

Norman Hapgood became editor of Collier's Weekly in 1903 and attracted many leading writers. In May, 1906, he commissioned Jack London to report on the San Francisco earthquake. His report was accompanied by sixteen pages of pictures. Under Hapgood's guidance, Collier's Weekly began publishing the work of investigative journalists such as Ida Tarbell, C.P. Connolly, Samuel Hopkins Adams and Ray Stannard Baker. It had great impact, resulting in such changes as the reform of the child labor laws, slum clearance and women's suffrage. In April 1905, an article by Upton Sinclair, "Is Chicago Meat Clean?", helped to persuade the Senate to pass the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.

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Norman Hapgood - 1903 - 1906 - Jack London - San Francisco earthquake - Ida Tarbell - C.P. Connolly - Samuel Hopkins Adams - Ray Stannard Baker - 1905 - Upton Sinclair - Meat Inspection Act

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In October 1905, Adams contributed a series of eleven articles, "The Great American Fraud". Adams analyzed the contents of some of the country's most popular patent medicines, and pointed out that the companies producing these medicines were making false claims about their products, and that in some cases, these medicines were actually damaging the health of those people using them. The series had a tremendous impact on public opinion and resulted in the passing of the first Pure Food and Drug Act (1906). Norman Hapgood left for Harper's Weekly in 1912. Robert Collier, son of the founder, became the new editor.

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Patent medicine - Pure Food and Drug Act - Harper's Weekly - 1912

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Publishing writers such as Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, who reported on the Spanish Civil War, help boost the sells of Collier's. In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was a regular contributor to Collier's. He wrote an account of the First World War. This came to an end in 1938 when Churchill became a minister in the British government.

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Martha Gellhorn - Ernest Hemingway - Spanish Civil War - 1930s - Winston Churchill - First World War - 1938 - Minister - British

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