埃达·塔贝尔(1857—1944)是美国20世纪最成功的杂志作家之一。在当时那个女性几乎没有社会地位或政治权力的年代,她写了不少重要的文章。塔贝尔曾利用自己的报道技巧与当时世界上最强大的公司之一做过斗争。这家公司就是美国的标准石油公司。塔贝尔指责标准石油公司采用非法手段打击或吞并比较小的石油公司。她调查了这些非法的商业交易,并把它们写下来发表在一家名叫《麦克卢尔》的杂志上。她的报道使这些案 Ada Tabel (1857-1944) was one of the most successful magazine writers in the 20th century in the United States. At that time, the woman had almost no social status or political power era, she wrote a lot of important articles. Tabel used his reporting techniques to fight one of the most powerful companies in the world at the time. This company is the United States standard oil company. Tabel accused standard oil companies of using illegal tactics to combat or annex smaller oil companies. She investigated the illegal business deals and wrote them down for publication in a magazine called McClure. Her reports make these cases