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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Australian Investigative Journalist Chris Masters: The Man Who Saw In
Chris Masters (b. 1948) stands among the small number of Australian journalists whose work changed the institutions he covered. Across six decades he exposed corruption in police forces, courts, parliaments, and the military, and his reporting triggered royal commissions, criminal … Continue reading
The Unwinder: George Packer and the Study of American Decline
George Packer (b. 1960) is an American journalist, essayist, novelist, and author whose career chronicles the weakening of American institutions, the limits of American power abroad, and the social cost of economic change at home. Over four decades he has … Continue reading
Thomas Edsall: The Reporter Who Treated Politics as a System
Thomas Byrne Edsall (b. August 22, 1941) is an American journalist, author, and academic who has spent more than five decades explaining the structural forces that shape American politics. He writes about political realignment, racial conflict, economic inequality, demographic change, … Continue reading
Ross Douthat and the Persistence of Belief
Ross Gregory Douthat (b. 1979) writes columns, books, and criticism at the intersection of religion, politics, demography, and culture in the United States. He has written a column for The New York Times since 2009, where he is a traditional … Continue reading
Joseph Kahn and the Stewardship of The New York Times
Joseph F. Kahn (b. 1964) edits The New York Times. He holds the position of executive editor, the highest rank in the newsroom, and has held it since June 2022. He directs more than 2,300 journalists and sets the editorial … Continue reading
The Institutionalist: Dean Baquet and the Remaking of American Journalism
As executive editor of The New York Times from 2014 to 2022, Dean P. Baquet (b. 1956) becomes the first Black journalist to run the newsroom of the most influential paper in the United States, and he presides over its … Continue reading
The Publisher Always Wins – A Jill Abramson Biography
Jill Ellen Abramson (b. 1954) stands at the center of the most consequential transition in modern American journalism, the passage from print dominance to digital survival. She becomes the first woman to run the newsroom of The New York Times, … Continue reading
Howard Zinn – The Historian Who Took Sides
Howard Zinn (1922-2010) writes the most widely read radical history in American life and spends fifty years arguing that the historian’s job includes taking sides. He grows up poor, fights in a world war, drops napalm on a French town, … Continue reading
Linton Besser: A Reporter and the Paper Trail
Linton Besser (b. 1976) is an Australian investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, and media critic. He reports on corruption, regulatory failure, corporate misconduct, and the conduct of public institutions. Across newspapers, television, radio, and documentary film he has built a body … Continue reading
Gerald Stone and the Making of Australian Current Affairs
Gerald Louis Stone (1933-2020) reshapes Australian broadcast journalism across the final quarter of the twentieth century. As founding executive producer of the Australian edition of 60 Minutes, he builds a model of television current affairs that joins investigative reporting, international … Continue reading