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Whitaker’s wife Gelber remembers hearing about Alter when he was working at Washington Monthly...
...Alter soon followed in the footsteps of his college buddies when the editor of the Washington Monthly, Charlie Peters, convinced Bill Broyles, the newly appointed editor of Newsweek, to hire Alter as his assistant and informal “spy.” His role was to help ease the transition and tell Broyles, an outsider of Newsweek, what was going on internally...
...many of the people that I now have good working relationships with despised me at first,” Alter says with a chuckle...
...Over the years, Mark has played more of an inside role and I have played more of an outside role in the magazine,” says Alter, who figures as a kind of public intellectual, appearing regularly on television—he has signed three contracts with NBC News since 1997—and working on a book about Franklin Roosevelt which is due out later this year...
...Alter worked for seven years as a media critic at Newsweek, and his column on politics, government and social issues has run in the magazine about two out of every three weeks since...