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A journalist’s assessment of the Libby trial
Rick Kaplan is about to walk in the door as EP at CBS News. Maybe the first thing he should do is beg Eric Engberg to come out of retirement. Engberg is an old CBS Washington hand, who is not best loved by people whose condemnations I tend to regard as commendations. In a more…
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History of American Journalism
If you go to Chris Daly‘s blog, you can read the first chapters of his forthcoming book Covering America. Daly is professor of journalism at Boston University and a former WaPo reporter. He’s taking the book up to 2004, so expect it to get more contentious the closer it gets to now…
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Reporter involvement: a message to Dan Harris, although it’s not his fault
My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action. Graham Greene The Quiet AmericanFrom USA Today: More reporters embrace an advocacy roleBy Peter Johnson The “social journalism” that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy…
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NBC Nightly News
A big congrats to Alex Wallace who is new EP of the NBC Nightly News. She is the real deal…