Muckraking/Alternative-Independent Media Mini Paper

Choose a contemporary independent-alternative media muckraker. Then, using the course materials, lectures and outside readings, you will research your chosen subject, their efforts and challenges, and write a 3 to 4-page paper in the APA style (including a title page, in-text citations and references) Submit to canvas by Friday, October 23 at 11:59 PM EST. (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html (Links to an external site.)).

For this paper, use these guiding questions/prompts and the list of suggestions. Choose a contemporary alternative/independent media muckraker. What issues have they focused on? Were they local, national and/or global issues? How might your chosen muckraker have exposed matters that have been otherwise ignored? In what ways has your subject challenged traditional structures of power? What are the significances of their work? What are the stakes, material and ethical? What challenges might they have had and why might those challenges have been important?

Among the contemporary alternative/independent muckraking journalists/practitioners you can choose from are: Bill Weinberg, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Naomi Klein, Chris Hedges, Shaun King, Amy Goodman, Greg Palast, Mehdi Hasan, Glen Ford (Black Agenda Report), Thom Hartmann, Bill Moyers, Alexander Cockburn (deceased but relevant), William Rivers Pitt, Medea Benjamin (CODEPINK), Julian Assange and Michael Moore. Some of these figures may have been present in mainstream media, but are mainly associated with alternative/independent journalism/media practices and social activism.