It was a happy surprise on Saturday morning to see the New York Times reveal that one of its top reporters, David Rohde, had escaped from his Taliban kidnappers, after seven months, and was now safe and unharmed. I can't imagine how shocking this was for nearly everyone else, who had no idea he had even been kidnapped.
My magazine, Editor & Publisher, was among the media outlets aware, very early on (probably ahead of many others), that Rohde had been...
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