Preferred Lies and Other Tales: Skimming the Cream of a Life in Sports Jack Whitaker Simon and Schuster. 272 Pages. $24.There is a movie scene that haunts just about every serious sportswriter … Read more
Salant, CBS, and The Battle for the Soul of American Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant Compiled and Edited by Susan and Bill Buzenberg Eastview Press. 331 Pages. $27.Dick Salant, the … Read more
Ted Poston: Pioneering American Journalist Kathleen Hauke University of Georgia Press. 326 Pages. $29.95.In today’s age of hyper-speed journalism, where news cycles change hourly and consumers can get stories at the click … Read more
This is excerpted from a December 18 Nieman seminar in which Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, offered his perspective on foreign news coverage. Question: Why should the average American newspaper reader care about … Read more
Secrecy: The American Experience Daniel Patrick Moynihan Yale University Press. 262 Pages. $22.50. A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know Edited by Athan G. Theoharis University Press of Kansas. 245 … Read more
This article is excerpted from a paper prepared by Roy Gutman, a correspondent for Newsday, for the International Studies Association conference held in Vienna, Austria in September 1998. Human rights abuses, war crimes and impunity are the stuff of … Read more
Rwandan refugees board a cargo plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that will take them back to Kigali, Rwanda. A mother sits next to her daughter who died on the runway of … Read more
