Muckraker
English Meaning
- One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.
- A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
- One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s)