I'm trying to decide whether to be a crusading journalist or a craven hack.

A dedicated social ameliorist, Olmsted started out in life as a crusading journalist.

The riveting drama stars the president's son as the evil mastermind behind the murder of a crusading journalist who came too close to the truth.

But the crusading journalist has refused to go quietly.

Equally significant to progressive-era reform were the crusading journalists, known as muckrakers.

It's easy to persuade people to be negative, easy to get them to pay attention to gossip, easy to defend yourself as a crusading journalist.

It is dangerous for a journalist, even a crusading journalist committed to changing social conditions, to usurp all those roles.

Greg wants to be a crusading journalist ("Woodward and Bernstein beware").

I have no wish to change my nature over this matter and become a crusading journalist.

He describes himself as a crusading journalist and newspaper editor.