Muckraker

[Fact 1]: ISBN 069104600X.

[Fact 2]: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

[Fact 3]: Anderson himself once praised Behar as "one of the most dogged of our watchdogs"

Noam Chomsky - a high-level, observant, circumspect muckraker working within the academic landscape.

Counterpunch Muckraking newsletter, published in the United States, edited by, among others, Andrew Cockburn

Barbara Ehrenreich — journalist and author - Nickel and Dimed: On |Juan Gonzalez]] — investigative reporter, columnist in New York Daily News

Amy Goodman — broadcast journalist, host of Pacifica Radio Network's program Democracy Now!

John Howard Griffin , exposed unsafe automobile manufacturing

Allan Nairn — Dili Massacre, US backing of Haitian death squad FRAPH

Jack Newfield — muckraking columnist; wrote for New York Post

Greg Palast — politics and elections issues, Exxon Valdez, corporate crime, corruption

John Pilger — award-winning war correspondent, film maker and author

Anna Politkovskaya — Murdered Russian journalist critical of the Kremlin

Jeffrey Robinson - author of The Laundrymen - Inside money laundering, the worlds third largest business

Jeremy Scahill - author of , contributor to Democracy Now!

Eric Schlosser — author of Fast Food Nation, an exposé of fast food in American culture

Morgan Spurlock — American Filmmaker; exposed through example the dangers of McDonalds in his documentary Super Size Me

Maia Szalavitz - Author of , an expose of abuse in the unregulated troubled teen industry and controversy surrounding the methods and philosophy behind tough love behavior modification.

Studs Terkel — Legendary Chicago writer, journalist, DJ, and historian

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[Fact 4]: While cautioning about possible pitfalls of keeping one's attention ever trained downward, "on the muck," Roosevelt emphasized the social benefit of investigative muckraking reporting, saying: The term eventually came to be used in reference to investigative journalists who reported about and exposed issues such as—crime, fraud, waste, public-health and safety, graft, illegal financial practices—when found within American and, by association, with foreign interests involved,for example, as partners and co-conspirators.

[Fact 5]: Hunter S.

[Fact 6]: McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers''.

[Fact 7]: A muckraker's reporting may span businesses and government generally, especially where such have elements of both involved in the same report.The reports and long-form works which yielded important news and developments during this period include:

Rachael Carson, an marine biologist who became a famous writer, best known for her 1962 book Silent Spring, which confronted the chemical industry and helped to spur legislation for regulation and control of DDT and other industrially and domestically used substances.

Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed — of McClure's & The American Magazine

Nellie Bly — "The Story of Life Insurance" May - November 1906 McClure's

Helen Hunt Jackson |Vanity Fair]].

Wayne Barrett — investigative journalist, senior editor of the Village Voice; wrote on mystique and misdeeds in Rudy Giuliani's conduct as mayor of New York City, Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11

Richard Behar — investigative journalist, two-time winner of the 'Jack Anderson Award'.

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Gary Weiss — exposed the Mob on Wall Street, described by Barron's Magazine as "an old-time gumshoe, with a soupçon of little-guy champion Jimmy Breslin and a dash of 1950s bad-boy comic Lenny Bruce"

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — breakthrough journalists for The Washington Post on the Watergate scandal; authors of All the President's Men, non-fiction account of the scandal

Gallagher, Aileen .