muckrakers

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1. Authors who specialize in exposing corruption in business, government, and elsewhere, especially those who were active at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Some famous muckrakers were Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair. President Theodore Roosevelt is credited with giving them their name.

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Politicians, activists, muckrakers and Wall Street’s “Masters of the Universe” collide in a metropolitan epic centered, Wolfe writes, “where things are happening.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In the early 1900s, journalism, the muckrakers, became highly influential, raising awareness about many social ills, including child labor, unsafe working conditions and unsanitary food processing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

Like the muckrakers of an earlier age, investigative journalists bring to light what the powerful often want to keep in darkness.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

Local muckrakers seem to keep their eyes peeled for sinister colors at construction sites.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2022

The number of young children, however, was always exaggerated by the muckrakers, though unquestionably several hundred children ten to twelve years old, and possibly a few younger, were employed years ago.

From The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson

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