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Falling Into the Fault Line Chasm

He was young, but he knew it was the kind of story that could change lives and win prizes so he didn’t hesitate when his editors asked him to spend…

Spring 1998: The Economic Sector Introduction

The first paper on four areas of watchdog journalism concerns the economic sector. As these cartoons show, some issues that disturb the country have not changed in the last century—fear…

The Fred Friendly Impact

It was a coin toss as to which provoked more contempt in my youth, authority or celebrity.Fred Friendly combined them both, though his celebrity was of the professional, behind-the-scenes sort.…

Two Stories Seymour Hersh Never Wrote

Seymour M. Hersh has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes as an investigative reporter, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his disclosure of the My…

Response: Eye Always on Bureaucracies

The late Peter Kihss was one of the greatest American reporters of the 20th Century. Year after year, on a huge variety of subjects, he produced spot news and investigative…