muckraking

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“The seasoned families will never live on apartment house terms, like larvae in a honeycomb,” wrote the muckraking journalist Will Irwin in 1927.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 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

“For the past six years, the public has been reading and hearing a prosecution and muckraking narrative about this case that is simply fundamentally wrong,” Morrison wrote in an email.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

Jim Hightower, the former Texas agriculture commissioner who later gained prominence as a muckraking progressive journalist, was the keynote speaker at the 2000 Greens convention.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2023

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