muckraker

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

“Government by party is not a means of settling things,” as the muckraker Henry Demarest Lloyd said.

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

To his Russian admirers, Timur Olevskiy is a kind of latter-day Walter Cronkite or Mike Wallace, a trusted journalist and fearless muckraker.

From Washington Post