muckraker

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Greenwald is an itinerant, old-school muckraker, working with small crews, sometimes only himself, to tell stories of oppression and threats to democracy from those who often are not heard.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

I suspect future culture historians will view "Soylent Green" in the same manner that they today regard the 1906 novel "The Jungle" by progressive muckraker Upton Sinclair.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

Ida Tarbell, a pioneering muckraker turned Lincoln biographer, believed they were real.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023

Its resident muckraker, Wayne Barrett, took aim at New York developers and politicians for nearly 40 years, and his obsessive work on Donald J. Trump has become a resource for reporters covering the president today.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2018

By age twelve, I was a devotee of the political columnist Mary McGrory and the muckraker Jack Anderson.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove