Journalist’s Trade

He was an ‘icon of icons’ about whom little was known.

In celebrating Jordan as a hero, are we merely worshipping capitalism?

Boundaries seem much harder to find and a lot easier to cross.

“Today it is difficult to pick up a sports section or watch a sporting event on TV without finding some athlete’s privacy being invaded.” This observation rests at the center…

Big companies are like battleships going down the middle of a gulf. When we fire our guns they’re pretty loud, but we don’t change direction very well.It’s the size of…

In 1978, ABC started a program called “20/20,” as a kind of a standard newsmagazine program. They were trying to see what they could do in the “60 Minutes” business.…

We celebrate tonight the men and women whose dedication to the collection and distribution of facts threatens their very existence. When they antagonize those with money, political power and guns,…

How Profitability Has Moved Networks Out of Hard News

Which Way They Go Could Depend on What Journalists Know and How They React

Photo by Diedra Laird, The Charlotte Observer.For years, parents and educators in poverty-ridden pockets of the South sensed the public schools were shortchanging their children. And they were right. Their…