muckrakers

1. Authors who specialize in exposing corruption in business, government, and elsewhere, especially those who were active at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Some famous muckrakers were Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair. President Theodore Roosevelt is credited with giving them their name.

Example Sentences

His Watergate reporting, with Bob Woodward at The Washington Post, brought down a presidency and inspired a generation of muckrakers.

From New York Times

Which is somewhat interesting with the muckrakers taking on Standard Oil, and you get to the present with some policy ideas, including things that people can do as individuals.

From The Verge

But in eastern Afghanistan, three young women who were shot to death on Tuesday outside of Enikass, the Jalalabad television station where they worked, were not investigative muckrakers.

From New York Times

But when the journalists investigated his allies in Congress, Roosevelt disparaged them as “muckrakers.”

From Washington Post

Most importantly, it was the birth of muckrakers and truth-tellers and storytellers who came to the fore.

From Salon