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

Ron Kaye, a longtime Los Angeles Daily News editor known for civically inspired muckraking and boosting the San Fernando Valley — including a failed bid for the Valley to secede from L.A. — has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2024

“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

Lives lived: John Pilger, a muckraking journalist who was best known for a documentary about the Khmer Rouge’s genocide in Cambodia, died at 84.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 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