Editing Will Irwin (section)

== McClure's and Collier's ==
Irwin was hired by [[S.S. McClure]] in 1906 as managing editor of ''[[McClure's]]''. He rose to the position of editor but disliked the work and then moved to ''[[Collier's Weekly|Collier's]]'', edited by [[Norman Hapgood]]. He wrote investigative stories on the movement for [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] and a study of fake spiritual [[mediumship|mediums]].

Back on the Pacific coast in 1906–1907 to research a story on [[anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States|anti-Japanese racism]], Irwin returned to San Francisco and found it flourishing. Several years later, he wrote an article on the city's rebirth entitled "The City That Is" in the ''[[San Francisco Call]]'', which concluded that San Francisco had become "a larger city, a more convenient city, and since it is also a more beautiful and more distinctive city I announce myself a complete convert. This city that was business is the old stuff."<ref>{{cite news |title=The City That Is |author=Will Irwin |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1910-03-12/ed-1/seq-12/ |work=San Francisco Call |date=March 12, 1910 |page=12 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Signed drawing of Will Irwin by Manuel Rosenberg for Cincinnati Post 1924.jpg|thumb|Signed drawing of Will Irwin by [[Manuel Rosenberg]] for the Cincinnati Post 1924]]
Irwin's series on anti-Japanese discrimination appeared in ''Collier's'' in September–October 1907 and ''Pearson's'' in 1909.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Will Irwin |date=September 28, 1907 |title=The Japanese and the Pacific Coast |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_colliers-the-national-weekly_1907-09-28_40_1/page/n11/mode/2up |magazine=Collier's: The National Weekly |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=13–15 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Will Irwin |date=October 12, 1907 |title=The Japanese and the Pacific Coast |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_colliers-the-national-weekly_1907-10-12_40_3/page/n11/mode/2up |magazine=Collier's: The National Weekly |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=13–15 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Will Irwin |date=October 19, 1907 |title=The Japanese and the Pacific Coast |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_colliers-the-national-weekly_1907-10-19_40_4/page/n15/mode/2up |magazine=Collier's: The National Weekly |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=17–19 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Will Irwin |date=October 26, 1907 |title=The Japanese and the Pacific Coast |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_colliers-the-national-weekly_1907-10-26_40_5/page/n13/mode/2up |magazine=Collier's: The National Weekly |volume=40 |issue=5 |pages=15–16 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Will Irwin |date=June 1909 |title=Why the Pacific Slope Hates the Japanese |magazine=Pearson's Magazine | volume=21 |issue=6 |pages=581–591 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081664322&view=page&seq=629 |access-date=February 5, 2023}}</ref>