Editing Jacob Riis (section)

===Years at the ''Tribune''===
A neighbor of Riis, who was the city editor of the ''[[New-York Tribune]]'', recommended Riis for a short-term contract. Riis did well and was offered the job of a police reporter. He was based in a press office across from police headquarters on [[Mulberry Street (Manhattan)|Mulberry Street]]. "Nicknamed 'Death's Thoroughfare{{'"}}, Riis's biographer Alexander Alland writes, "It was here, where the street crooks its elbow at the [[Five Points, Manhattan|Five Points]], that the streets and numerous alleys radiated in all directions, forming the foul core of the New York slums."<ref name="alland25">Alland, p. 25.</ref>

During these stints as a police reporter, Riis worked the most crime-ridden and impoverished slums of the city. Through his own experiences in the poorhouses, and witnessing the conditions of the poor in the city slums, he decided to make a difference for them.<ref name=" mirror" /> Working night-shift duty in the immigrant communities of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Riis developed a tersely melodramatic writing style and he became one of the earliest reformist journalists.