Author Archive
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Cover Story
In cold type
November 1, 2012 12:00 AMOne morning in January, 1957, Josh Logan, the veteran Broadway producer and Hollywood director, came down from his room into the lobby of the Miyako Hotel in Kyoto, Japan, and spied just about the last person in the world he... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Up and Down on the Bayou
July 1, 2010 01:01 PMIn the spring of 2006, about seven months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and a swath of the Gulf coast, Ashton Phelps, publisher of The Times-Picayune, gave this prognosis of his paper's future to The New York Times: "The... Continue reading
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Review
A Distant Echo
January 13, 2010 07:16 PMThroughout the initial year of President Obama’s term, there has been much consternation over the administration’s “war” with the conservative press. With commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham taking to the airwaves to label the... Continue reading
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Feature
A Man in Full
July 17, 2009 04:13 PMIt was the birds that tipped him off. Two days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, while the storm was still out at sea and its path remained uncertain, Garland Robinette was coming out of his neighborhood coffeehouse when he... Continue reading
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Essay
In the Tank
January 23, 2009 12:00 PMFirst, allow me to confess my sins. For the last eleven years, I have made my living practicing the dark art of journalism, and while perhaps not a full-fledged member of that nefarious institution known as the msm, my byline... Continue reading
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Cover Story
Sulzberger at the Barricades
July 15, 2008 09:00 AMCorporate annual meetings are generally drowsy affairs—a pep talk by management, some PowerPoint graphics, a little predetermined voting, all topped off by a parade of cranks to the microphones to excoriate management about their pet causes. April’s annual gathering... Continue reading
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Essay
Somewhere East of Eden
March 18, 2008 09:00 AMThe temple housing Nelson Poynter’s holy relics of journalism is located outside of downtown St. Petersburg, on a sunny chunk of Florida real estate just a stone’s throw from America’s only museum dedicated to the surrealist master Salvador Dalí.... Continue reading
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Review
Norman Pearlstine, Company Man
July 26, 2007 08:30 AMNorman Pearlstine was not a happy camper. It was spring 2005, and for almost a year the editor-in-chief of Time Inc. had been wrestling with a pair of subpoenas issued by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald seeking notes and testimony... Continue reading
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Second Read
On the Rocks
June 12, 2007 08:30 AMAnnals of the Former World By John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998 I first encountered the writer John McPhee about ten years ago on a remote stretch of the Salmon River in the wilds of northern... Continue reading
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Feature
The Shame Game
January 1, 2007 08:30 AMIt was just before 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon last November when a contingent of police gathered outside the home of Louis Conradt Jr., a longtime county prosecutor living in the small community of Terrell, Texas, just east... Continue reading
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Politics
Not So Fast, Mr. Fitzgerald
July 8, 2005 03:25 PMAs a rule, reporters prefer to cover court cases, not argue them. So it was disturbing to see portions of my March/April CJR story, "Attack At The Source," cited by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in his brief (140K... Continue reading
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