Woodward and Bernstein

How Woodward and Bernstein Came to Interview Grand Jurors

Barry Sussman | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Criminal Justice, Newspapers, Watergate, Watergate Grand Juror, Woodward and Bernstein, Watergate Investigation, Watergate Grand Jury, Media News
Barry Sussman

After almost 40 years of denials by Woodward and Bernstein, it was revealed this week that Bernstein had interviewed a Watergate grand juror in 1972. I have known about this for a long time, as I'm the editor who gave them the assignment.

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Watergate's Lessons for the New media Age

Edward Wasserman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Threats to Investigative Reporting, Washington Post, Watergate, Media Ethics, Woodward and Bernstein, Bradlee, Media News
Edward Wasserman

Watergate was a towering moment of heroism, an episode of legendary stature in which journalism's foundational purposes were triumphantly validated and a drift toward despotism was stopped, all thanks to a single-minded dedication to the craft of determined reporting.

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C-SPAN Is America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Woodward and Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Walter Cronkite, Paul Fahri, Newton Minnow, Vast Wasteland, Civil War, New Deal, Ronald Reagan, Book Tv, C-Span, Ernest Hemingway, Democracy, Televising the Supreme Court, Free Press, Brian Lamb, George Washington, Citizens United, Abraham Lincoln, Rob Kennedy, Edward R. Murrow, Susan Swain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy, Freedom, Supreme Court, News Cycle, Informed Citizenry, Katharine Graham, Ted Turner, Franklin Roosevelt, Media News
Brent Budowsky

While our politics have become a shouting match of pander and slander, name-calling and talking points, celebrity media and instant misanalysis, C-SPAN shines as an exemplar of what a free press in a free nation should be.

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Digging Deep: A Treasury of Books About Journalism

Michael W. Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ida Tarbel, Standard Oil, Enron, George W. Bush, David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, News Media, JFK Assassination, James Phelan, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, John D. Rockefeller, Muckraking, Vietnam, State of the News Media, Jessica Mitford, Peter Arnett, Watergate, Clark Mollenhoff, Nixon, Woodward and Bernstein, Censorship, Investigative Reporting, Nixonburgers, Center for Public Integrity, Bob Woodward, Media News
Michael W. Hudson

With the struggles of many old-line news media, it's easy to forget how important real reporting is to informing citizens and defeating the forces of secrecy and propaganda.

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The Philip Roth Reader: Putting the Ire in Satire

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Kelly, Watergate, Our Gang, The Philip Roth Reader, Woodward and Bernstein, Richard Nixon, Reading, Books, Philip Roth, Books News
Karen Stabiner

I admire Roth for being able to discipline rage into something that makes us feel smarter just for reading it.

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Financial Media Mourns Its Pulitzer

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diana Henriques, Mother Jones, New York Financial Writers Association, Washington Post, Erin Arvedlund, Woodward and Bernstein, Wall Street Journal, Bernie Madoff, Pulitzer Prize, Andrea Chalupa, Media News
Andrea Chalupa

Will financial reporting ever have a Woodward and Bernstein, the two metro desk Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal?

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Whither Watchmen? Is This Big, Dark, Geeky, Lefty Movie The Next Comic Book Blockbuster?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Bradley

Watchmen lays out and alternate America in a stunning opening sequence that presents the 20th century as a relentless slog of war and murder. If hope is on the menu, it's in short supply.

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The Other Side of 'Deep Throat': He Spied on My Friends

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cointelpro, Watergate, W. Mark Felt, Deep Throat, Woodward and Bernstein, Deep Throat Dies, Mark Felt FBI, Mark Felt, Fbi, Mark Felt Dies, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

Journalists lionizing the former FBI official for his contribution in helping to bring down Nixon should not overlook the fact that Felt was one of the architects of the bureau's notorious COINTELPRO campaign.

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