Between September 2001 and November 2006, I was editor of two Knight Ridder papers, first the Lexington Herald-Leader and then The Philadelphia Inquirer. It was a period of intense turmoil.…

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Masha Gessen on the Russian leader’s totalitarian regime and the weaknesses of U.S. media coverage of her country

An Essay in Words and Photographs

An Essay in Words and Photographs

‘Does the fact that this story hasn’t been told mean that there’s not enough to tell it?’

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Tom Wicker, at Attica prison in 1971, spoke and wrote with force and conviction. Photo by Michael Evans/The New York Times.Tom Wicker, NF ’58, a columnist and Washington bureau chief…

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