EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has acquired the 2015 Black List biopic script Ida Tarbell by Mark McDevitt for producer Tom Drumm of Think Tank Management & Production to produce. The Irish writer McDevitt moved ...

It is worth remembering that the journalist who pioneered investigative reporting at the turn of the 20 th century grew up wanting to be a scientist. Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell ...

Amazon Studios is developing a movie about pioneering investigative journalist Ida Tarbell and her battle against industrial magnate John D. Rockefeller. Amazon has acquired movie rights to Mark ...

Investigative journalist Ida Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857. She is best remembered for her 19-part McClure’s Magazine series, that began in 1902, about corruption at the Standard Oil Company.

WHO WOULD have thought it? Ida Tarbell - Cover Girl! Of course, the cover is the Columbia Journalism Review. But that's still remarkable when you consider that Tarbell hit her stride in 1904, the year ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Paula Treckel introduces Ida Tarbell and what influenced her to take on writing about exposing the Standard Oil Company. Historian Paula ...

S.S. McClure feared being held back by his 'cursed mediocre versatility.” Ida Tarbell resolved to be free; it followed, in her mind, that she 'must be a spinster.” McClure channeled his versatility ...

Sparks flew when one of Spokane’s prime characters, Dutch Jake Goetz, shared the speaker’s table with Ida Tarbell, famous crusading author and investigative journalist, at the Spokane Chamber of ...

Today in Media History is taking a break for the holidays. During that time, we’re sharing some popular posts from Today in Media History’s archives. This post originally ran on Nov. 5. Investigative ...