Sullivan was able to do this undercover work very successfully and turned in his findings, including the news about the “red clause” and press censorship, in a lengthy article entitled “The patent medicine conspiracy against the freedom of the press.” Curtis applauded Sullivan’s work but considered this article too long and legalistic for his journal and offered it to Norman Hapgood, the scholarly editor of Collier’s, The National Weekly. Hapgood published Sullivan’s reforming editorial in November 1905 in Collier’s, which now became the leading popular journal decrying patent medicines to the American public. Hapgood also hired a special reporter to fully expose the nostrum industry to the public, Samuel Hopkins Adams.