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Riis worked briefly as editor of a south Brooklyn newspaper, the Brooklyn News.
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Riis worked as a carpenter in Scandinavian communities in the western part of the state, also working a variety of other jobs.
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Riis and editor
Riis rushed there to enlist, but the editor ( whom he later realized was Charles Anderson Dana ) claimed or affected ignorance but offered the famished Riis a dollar for breakfast ; Riis indignantly refused.
Riis noticed an advertisement by a Long Island newspaper for an editor, applied for and was appointed city editor.
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Riis and newspaper
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.
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.
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.
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 and News
He said that if Riis had nothing better to do, then the New York News Association was looking for a trainee.
Riis wrote to Elisabeth to propose, and with $ 75 of his savings and promissory notes, he bought the News company.
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P. J. Riis " The Cult Image of Diana Nemorensis " in Acta Archaelogica Kopenhagen 37 1966 p. 69 ff.
* 1849 – Jacob August Riis, American journalist ( d. 1914 )
* 1914 – Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer ( b. 1849 )
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* ( 1890 ) In How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on " Jewtown " are described.
Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914 ) was a Danish American social reformer, " muckraking " journalist and social documentary photographer.
While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums.
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 returned to Ribe in 1868 at age 19.
Discouraged by poor job availability in the region and by Gjortz's disfavor of his marriage proposal, Riis decided to emigrate to the United States.
Riis emigrated to America in 1870, when he was 21 years old, seeking employment as a carpenter.
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 five days, during which he used almost all his money, Riis found work as a carpenter at Brady's Bend Iron Works on the Allegheny River.
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