muckrake

She wasn’t there to muckrake but to grasp what happens when the object of laboratory study is not a molecule or a rat but a human being.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018

And it’s not just foreign operatives that we must beware of - deep-pocketed special interests here can muckrake online with little or no accountability, too.

From Washington Times ● May 9, 2018

At the 1906 Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with "the muckrake in his hand."

From US News ● Mar. 17, 2015

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2011

For, behold, the muckrake is likewise visible in all.

From The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce

Wells muckraked the failings of the press, in other words.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024

Samuel Hopkins Adams muckraked the patent-medicine industry, and Congress swiftly enacted the Pure Food and Drug Act.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once said it was pretty much impossible to convince somebody of something if their money depended on them not believing or understanding it.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The catalyst: a muckraking YouTuber named “Reckless Ben,” who stormed into town on a mission to recover the toy bricks for an ailing retiree’s family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Woodward and Bernstein had just changed the world with their muckraking, and what was I doing with my brand-new degree in journalism?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025

Videos posted online and coverage on the local muckraking site the Rooster document Pan’s 17-minute address, in which he:

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls