Synonyms of muckraker

muckraker

noun

as in journalist

someone who tries to reveal information about prominent individuals behaving badly

The newspaper used a team of seasoned muckrakers to expose the corruption at city hall.

Related Words

• journalist
• reporter
• sportswriter
• newsman
• photojournalist
• staffer
• newspaperman
• stringer
• correspondent
• newspaperwoman
• police reporter
• newsperson
• pressman
• newshound
• broadcaster
• newscaster
• newswoman
• editor
• announcer
• columnist
• intelligencer
• anchorman
• commentator
• anchorwoman
• anchorperson
• anchor
• copyreader
• byliner

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of muckraker

And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough. — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Several anti-Flock websites and muckrakers used open records laws to collect and publish hundreds of police agencies’ audit logs – internal records detailing each time an officer searched Flock for a specific tag. — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Carboy did find the Harding memo in the archives of the late Village Voice muckraker Wayne Barrett, but the city has never produced it. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026

Eric Bogosian’s leather jacket-wearing muckraker is still asking questions in season three of Interview With the Vampire, and the AMC series has been renamed in honor of Molloy’s latest subject. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026

Famous American muckrakers include Ida Tarbell who wrote about Standard Oil’s monopoly; Lincoln Steffens who wrote about corruption in city halls; and Upton Sinclair who exposed deplorable conditions in the meatpacking industry. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 May 2026

One spring day, Tan’s critical gaze landed on the work of freelance journalist Gil Duran, a tech-industry muckraker with a background in Democratic politics who was starting to take very seriously the right-wing political ambitions of San Francisco tech moguls. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025