Word: journalist
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...virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
Assembling this critical gallimaufry is the task of reporter-researcher Andrea Sachs. An attorney turned journalist who joined TIME in 1984, Sachs says her legal training "helps me to negotiate the little problems that come up." The hardest: squeezing opinions to fit into the highly compressed space. Not surprisingly, Sachs has found critics to be "the most opinionated and creative people you'd ever want to meet. They care so much about their stories that they are ready to go to war over the change of a comma...
...Professor of History emeritus John King Fairbank, speaking at a discussion honoring the late journalist Theodore H. White...
Washington Post editor Benjamin C. Bradlee '43-'44, New York Times Washington correspondent R.W. Apple and Higginson Professor of History emeritus John King Fairbank gathered to honor journalist Theodore H. White '38 and inaugurate an annual lecture in his honor...
...Teddy White wasn't a perfect journalist, none of us is, what was good about Teddy is that he kept trying to improve his trade," Apple said...