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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Joe Paterno

1. July 13, 2012 05:24 PM

   Media reactions to the Freeh Report

   Revelations force turnarounds from journalists

   By Hazel Sheffield

   Media coverage of the 267-page Freeh Report on the Penn State child abuse coverup hasn’t stopped since it was released Thursday. The Freeh Report is the result of an independent investigation by the lawyer Louis Freeh into the actions of Penn State officials who worked with Jerry Sandusky, an assistant football coach at the university. The Washington Post live-blogged events...

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2. July 25, 2012 02:35 PM

   Sacred cows

   The Penn State story offers a glimpse of the problems with league- and team-owned broadcast operations

   By Robert Weintraub

   Full-Court Press is a periodic column about the coverage of sports. On July 12, a report prepared by former FBI Director Louis Freeh at the behest of Penn State University slammed the school for covering up former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual predation of children, and demolished Joe Paterno’s reputation in the process. Freeh delivered the crux of his findings...

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3. July 17, 2012 11:05 AM

   Stories I’d like to see

   Soaring college costs and the Penn State private plane

   By Steven Brill

   In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. How high are universities flying? I was amazed to see this sentence in the piece The New York Times’s ever-amazing Jo Becker wrote last week about all...

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