Leonard Downie

Media 'Reform' and the First Amendment

Patrick Maines | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patrick Maines

The extent to which policymakers act on journalists' recommendations, may do damage to the commercial media, old and new, and inflict great violence on the First Amendment.

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Retiring Wash Post Editor's Record Stained By Failure on Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Downie's paper stands out as a "complicit enabler." The Post had a tragically poor performance in the run-up to the Iraq war, and Downie has failed (as far as I've seen) to fully admit that.

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Len Downie Resigns: Washington Post Executive Editor To Step Down In September

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leonard Downie Jr. said today he is stepping down as The Washington Post's executive editor, ending a 17-year tenure in which the paper became a major...

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Washington Post To Replace Executive Editor By 2009: Report

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's soul-searching and campaigning going on, a lot of old hands are leaving, and people in Washington wonder who is going to be in charge next yea...

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