Riis noticed an advertisement by a Long Island newspaper for an editor, applied for and was appointed city editor.

Riis worked briefly as editor of a south Brooklyn newspaper, the Brooklyn News.

Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children ( one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered ) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and occasional writer for the local Ribe newspaper, and Carolina Riis ( née Bendsine Lundholme ), a homemaker.

Riis was a New York police-beat reporter who had been converted to urban social reform ideas by his contact with medical and public-health officials, some of whom were amateur photographers.

Riis used his own money to keep the team running throughout his first years as team manager, an expenditure he later vowed never to repeat when a new sponsor deal was signed during the 2005 Tour de France.

The first known use of the " ash can " terminology in describing the movement was by Art Young, in 1916, but the term was applied later not only to The Eight, but also to such artists as Edward Hopper ( a student of Henri ), George Bellows ( another student of Henri ), Mabel Dwight and others such as photographer Jacob Riis, who portrayed urban subject matter, also primarily of New York's working-class neighborhoods.

In 1894, Roosevelt met Jacob Riis, the muckraking Evening Sun newspaper journalist who was opening the eyes of New York's rich to the terrible conditions of the city's millions of poor immigrants with such books as, How the Other Half Lives.

" The Trade ", as it came to be known, upset Canadians to the extent that New Democratic Party House Leader Nelson Riis demanded that the government block it, and Pocklington was burned in effigy outside the Northlands Coliseum.

Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914 ) was a Danish American social reformer, " muckraking " journalist and social documentary photographer.

Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting, and who persuaded him to read ( and improve his English via ) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.

The father disapproved of the boy's blundering attentions, and Riis was forced to complete his carpentry apprenticeship in Copenhagen.

Riis emigrated to America in 1870, when he was 21 years old, seeking employment as a carpenter.

After a brief period of farmworking and odd jobs at Mount Vernon, Riis returned to New York, where he read in the newspaper New York Sun that the newspaper was recruiting soldiers for the war.

Riis was destitute, at one time sleeping on a tombstone and surviving on windfall apples.

On arrival, Riis found that the rumor was true but that he had arrived too late.

As autumn began, Riis was destitute, without a job.

Riis was devastated.

By doing odd jobs and stowing away on freight trains, Riis eventually reached Philadelphia, where he appealed to the Danish Consul, Ferdinand Myhlertz, for help and was cared for two weeks by the Consul and his wife.

Riis was in much demand as a carpenter, a major reason being the low prices he charged.

He said that if Riis had nothing better to do, then the New York News Association was looking for a trainee.

Yet soon the article proved to be popular and Riis spent the better part of a year expanding it into the book How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

His insights into better housing for New York's poor enabled better living conditions through improved sanitation brought by modern building methods, shared by reformers like Jacob Riis, Stanton Coit, Charles B. Stover and Carl Schurz.

As a result of snow on both the Col de l ' Iseran and the Col du Galibier, the scheduled 190 km stage from Val-d ' Isère to Sestriere in Italy was reduced to a 46 km sprint from Le-Monetier-les-Bains which was claimed by Bjarne Riis, resulting in him taking the yellow jersey which he retained to the finish in Paris.

As a result of snow on both the Col de l ' Iseran and the Col du Galibier, the scheduled 190 km stage 9 from Val-d ' Isère to Sestriere in Italy was truncated and reduced to a 46 km sprint from Le-Monetier-les-Bains which was claimed by Riis, opening a 44 second gap over his teammate Jan Ullrich.

Some critics have stamped him as a cheater, and claimed that the results Riis has achieved in his career are worthless, while others have labelled him as a victim of the doping culture that was rampant in professional road cycling at the time and that he should not be scapegoated for a wider problem.

As Thomas L. Riis claimed, Bob Cole ’ s “ association with the Johnson brothers indicated that Cole was turning away from coon-song composition ” ( 140 ).

Conveniently, the politicians offered to buy back the newspaper for five times the price Riis had paid ; he was thus able to arrive in Denmark with a substantial amount of money.

Riis disembarked in New York on June 5, on that day spending half the $ 40 his friends had given him on a revolver for defense against human or animal predators.

After one more night and a hurried wash in a horse trough, Riis went for an interview.

* Jacob A. Riis, an American immigrant photographer famous for his book How the Other Half Lives, a pioneering work of photojournalism.

Many reformers, such as Upton Sinclair and Jacob Riis, pushed for reforms in tenement dwellings.

It was not until Gianni Bugno and Miguel Indurain in 1991, that times faster than 40m were reported, including in the 39m range for Bjarne Riis in 1995 and Richard Virenque in 1997.

Similarly, the efforts of Jacob Riis in advocating for the demolition of degraded areas of New York in the late 19th century might also be seen as formative urban renewal programs.

When he was not selected for the 1984 Summer Olympics, former cyclist Kim Andersen advised Riis to start his professional career not in Italy, but in Luxembourg.

At the 1988 Tour of European Community race, while riding for the Toshiba team, Riis and fellow Danish rider Kim Eriksen were contacted by the former Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon from the Système U team.

In the hope of earning a contract with Système U, Riis helped Fignon achieve the victory and in December 1988 he moved to sports director Cyrille Guimard's Système U team as a support rider for Fignon.

When Fignon retired in 1992, Bjarne Riis contacted fellow Danish rider Rolf Sørensen, who got him a job as a rider for Italian team Ariostea under sporting director Giancarlo Ferretti.

Riis placed first in the Châlon-sur-Marne stage during the 1993 Tour de France and also wore the polka dot jersey for a day.

Riis was ill during the 1994 Tour de France but went on a break-away and then racing solo for the last 30 km of the day.

* 1984 — FINLAND: ; NORWAY: Bendik Riis ; SWEDEN:

It has been published, but never proven, that Riis had a hematocrit level of 56 % during one test in July 1995 ; well above typical natural levels, as well as his published reading of 41 % in the offseason earlier that year.

Muckraking pioneering photojournalist Jacob Riis documented the poor conditions of immigrant tenement dwellers in his 1890 How the Other Half Lives ; he was befriended by mutual admirer, fellow progressive and future United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who, after losing in the mayoral race in 1886, undertook a major reform of the New York City Police Department in 1895-1897 during his term as President of the Police Commissioners.