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Category Archives: Journalism
What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First
The New York Times is the most influential American newspaper. It reports the news, and it also supplies the framework through which the country’s governing class understands itself. Editors at other papers watch what it features. Network producers build segments … Continue reading
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What It Would Mean for The Wall Street Journal to Put the Reader First
Wall Street Journal readers don’t read for affirmation. Instead, they seek working intelligence more than affiliation. A man reads the Journal to act. He allocates capital, prices risk, hires, files, builds, regulates, or sues, and he needs the paper to … Continue reading
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Emma Tucker: Running Toward the Fire
Emma Tucker (b. 1966) edits The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, the first woman to lead the paper since its founding in 1889. Her career maps the transformation of elite Anglo-American journalism across three decades. She rose through … Continue reading
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Matt Murray: The Custodian
Matt Murray (b. 1966) holds a place in American journalism that rests less on a signature investigation or a body of prose than on his stewardship of large institutions through their hardest decades. He rose from the reporting core of … Continue reading
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Filling the Silence: Henry Blofeld and the End of a Broadcasting Tradition
Henry Blofeld (b. 1939) is an English institution and a model for my life. His career runs across the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and it touches the decline of the English landed gentry, the … Continue reading
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The Peter Baker Social Set
Peter Baker (b. 1967) and Susan Glasser (b. 1969) sit at the center of a Washington social and journalistic set with clear contours. He is chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. She is a staff writer at … Continue reading
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Naming Deep Throat
Mark Felt confirmed it himself in Vanity Fair on May 31, 2005. The first man to name him in print was Jack Limpert, the longtime editor of the Washingtonian, who died in 2024 at 90. In the June 1974 issue, … Continue reading
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The Bureau Man: Brit Hume and the Migration of Media Legitimacy
Brit Hume’s career runs across three media orders: the postwar network-broadcast consensus, the ideological fragmentation of cable, and the contemporary personality-driven news environment. Most later television commentators drew their authority from activism, celebrity, or ideological branding. Hume came up inside … Continue reading
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The Grammar of the Question: John Sawatsky and the Science of the Interview
John Sawatsky’s name carries weight inside newsrooms and almost none outside them. He won no celebrity, advanced no ideology, and published no book that the general reading public remembers. His standing rests on taking the most ordinary act in reporting, … Continue reading
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Female Reporters in the Locker Room – What Was Gained & Lost?
The access argument won because it was widely considered right. The story is made in the locker room. That is where the quotes are, in the minutes after the game while the emotion is still hot and the player has … Continue reading
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