investigative journalists
Exposers of corruption
Investigative journalists are reporters who pursue in-depth, long-term inquiries into wrongdoing, corruption, or concealed information.
Unlike beat reporters covering daily news, they dig for months or years, following document trails and cultivating sources: Investigative journalists uncovered the company's decades of environmental violations.
The work often involves legal risks and institutional resistance.
- exposéInvestigative journalism piece
- breaking newsNewly unfolding events reported
- front pageNewspaper's opening display
- sleuthPrivate investigator
- follow the moneyInvestigate by tracking payments
muckrakers · paper trail · ethics · media ethics · undercover · hidden camera · whistleblower · anonymous sources · off the record · reporting · public interest · source · scandal · fact-checking · public records · corporate fraud · corruption · scoop
- news medianews agency, newspaper, documentary, article, news photo
- Press FiguresJoseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Ida Tarbell, Nellie Bly, Edward R. Murrow
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- watchdogswatchdog, government watchdog, overseer, inspector, media watchdog
- freethinkersfreethinker, freethinkers, secularists, rationalist, rationalists
investigative journalistspundits
Expert commentators on affairs
stenographers · talking heads · aggregators · beat reporters · commentators
investigative journalistsconspiracy theorists
Believers in hidden plots
yellow journalists · hacks · rumor mongers · shills · hoaxers
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