Investigator vs Muckraker - What's the difference?
investigator | muckraker |
(US) 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.
(British) A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
(US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the (the 1890s to the 1920s)