The “northern muckraker” - as he was known - W.T. Stead, should be a household name in a time of sexual and media mayhem.
Stead was the youngest editor to be appointed in the country when in 1871, he resolved to turn his paper, the Northern Echo, into a pulpit.
He told his journalists to go into the slums and “be Christs." He wanted them to sacrifice ambition and expose poverty – and rape.
