Ibelive it is d but i am not sure how did journalists in the south its economic recovery? a) journalists from all over the country came to the south to report on what was happening—which opened up a whole new tourism industry. b) journalists in the south did not report favorably on opportunities there because the sharecropping system was keeping blacks in the fields. c) journalists like thomas nast profiled the inequities occurring in the south, encouraging northerners to get more involved by funding investments. d) journalists reported regularly on new business opportunities like investment properties opening up as planters sold their plantations. e) journalists reported regularly on the advantages the south offered to industries like textiles and steel mills through its cheap labor force.