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CJR Rewind: Novak on Novak
August 18, 2009 12:38 PMLongtime D.C. political columnist Robert Novak died today at age seventy-eight. This review of Novak's autobiography originally ran in the July/August 2007 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review. The best story that Bob Novak broke during Watergate was about the... Continue reading
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Review
Fountains, Faucets, and Leaks
July 12, 2007 03:25 AMThe best story that Bob Novak broke during Watergate was about the eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap on a tape, and he got it the same way he got many of his scoops in those days. He met a friendly source at the... Continue reading
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