お世話になっています。【】の翻訳お願いします。

But more often, they gossip about the professor who caught her husband cheating, or the quarrel between the head of the department and the dean,
or the rumours that a colleague used his research funds to buy a Lexus. Gossip usually focuses on wrongdoings.

【Rumour-mongers are the original fourth estate, journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders.】