Possible Clues:

• Scandalmonger
• Pal may keep Turkish spirit mostly for such a journalist
• Dirt-digging journalist
• Creative type outside ruck all over the place spraying dirt on others?
• Spooner's creator of rugby formations -- whence comes dirt?
• Mudslinger
• Journalist of the Progressive Era
• Scandalmonger's buddy securing position, having dropped name
• Scandalmonger heaps dirt on gardener perhaps