Opinion

‘The great writers he’d discovered in the library at the orphanage became midwives to his talent.’

‘But some of what ails American political journalism in our time is an overreaction to the failures of the boys back in Witcover’s heyday.’

Only when Solidarity won did the journalists realize ‘… they had formed the only all-woman cabal in Poland to make a counterstrike against martial law.’

A book explores the work of covering Russia through the experiences and words of those reporters who did it.

A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’

‘Great reporting in Washington is about cutting through the bureaucratic maze.’

‘I asked the council politely, “What is the role of this board? Will you be looking over and deciding what news goes to print?”

‘… realistic solutions to the problems newspaper editors face nowadays are elusive as best.’

In reflecting on the book, “A Matter of Opinion,” Ray Jenkins explains why its author, Victor S. Navasky, so strongly advocates “cutting-edge reporting, with an acknowledged point of view unrestrained…

Conversations with writers reveal how and why their stories are being told in different ways.