Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - March 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist and slum and school reformer, was born
in Ribe, Denmark.
He came to America in 1870 and wrote for the New York Evening
Sun newspaper. As a pioneer investigative
journalist, he went undercover working at a meat packing factory. His book How the Other Half Lives (ISBN 0140436790), pioneering photojournalism,
and friendship with Theodore Roosevelt (then New York Police
Board of Commissioners head) led to positive changes for New York tenement dwellers. Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula in the
borough of Queens, New York, is named for him.
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