President Reagan said today that he would not sign a bill aimed at protecting Federal workers who expose waste and mismanagement.

The News, owned by the Gannett Company, had daily circulation of 359,000 in 1994, the year the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing fiscal mismanagement in state government.

They're targeting these people because they exposed mismanagement and misappropriation of funds.

As chairman of the finance committee during 1854-55, Mackenzie was able to expose financial mismanagement and misuse of patronage by MacNab and Attorney General John A. Macdonald.

Take up one, says Spencer, and you will probably find a leading editorial "exposing the corruption, negligence or mismanagement of some State department.

The headmistress calls the police with a wild story of armed hoodlums and an enormous lion on the school grounds; subsequent enquiries expose her incompetence and mismanagement.

Originally initiated by Vladimir Lenin as a tool for exposing mismanagement and corruption, several million people worked as people's correspondents in their heyday.

The measure, which is expected to be approved by the Senate next week, is designed to strengthen protection for Federal employees who expose mismanagement, waste and wrongdoing in their agencies.

But in 1981, Leonid Brezhnev created the Central Committee Letters Department, and later Andropov called for more letters to editors to expose corruption and mismanagement.

Senator Grassley has said he is holding up the nominations over the State Department's transfer of an employee he regards as whistle-blower who exposed mismanagement.