Word: columnist
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...immediately, Zepeza said.“When we tried to back up our files and archives, [the security guards] would turn off the computers, push the escape button, and went as far as turning off the electricity in the end,” said Astrid Viveros, a La Catarina columnist who was at the office during the incident. The staff tried to inform the student body of the events surrounding the closing of the paper, but university e-mails with the word “La Catarina” have been blocked by the administration, the paper?...
There is no holier icon in the church of the first Amendment than the anonymous leak. Ever since columnist Robert Novak published the identity of a cia officer nearly four years ago, voices of journalism have delivered sermon after sermon about the centrality of leaks not just to journalism but to democracy itself: We need leaks to keep the government honest...
There is a an old saying in Texas: "I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could." Columnist and author Molly Ivins, who died Wednesday evening after a seven-year battle with inflammatory breast cancer, was one of the most notable transplanted Texans of recent years and, like her good friend the late Gov. Ann Richards, she came to embody a certain kind of Texas woman - passionate, funny, her wit folksy but sharp, sparing no one, not even herself...
...money being spent on investigative journalism and grand photo essays. For a decade, Molly wrote for the Dallas Times Herald, until it was swallowed up by the Dallas Morning News in 1992. Oh, I envied her, and I am sure that I was not alone - to be a political columnist in that decade before so much of politics turned to spin and pablum...
...TIME: You're certainly facing a prejudice in the press here - one columnist from the [pro-Labour tabloid Daily] Mirror often refers to you as "The Toff" [a British pejorative term for the elite social class...