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Behind the News
Studs And Me
November 4, 2008 11:58 AMI only met the master interviewer Studs Terkel once, but that occasion remains a high point of my thirty-five years as a journalist. And the funny part is, although I was a reporter, I didn’t meet him in that role,... Continue reading
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Bio
Dave Lindorff
Dave Lindorff graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1975, and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1978-79. After working for a number of newspapers and TV news programs, he became a freelance journalist and is the author of four books, most recently The Case for Impeachment (St. Martin¹s Press, 2006). He lives outside Philadelphia.
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The Audit Business
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- The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
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