While a literature of reform had already appeared by the mid-19th century, the kind of reporting that would come to be called muckraking began to appear around 1900.[3] By the 1900s, magazines such as Collier's Weekly, Munsey's Magazine and McClure's Magazine were already in wide circulation and read avidly by the growing middle class.[4][5] The January 1903 issue of McClure's is considered to b