Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most ardent short-wave listener anywhere may be in Tel Aviv. Journalist Michael Gurdus, 36, who works for the Israel Broadcasting Authority, has ten radios in his apartment to keep a constant check on electronic traffic in seven languages. He never leaves home during a crisis, and his scoops are numerous. Last April he was the first to report the full details of the U.S. failure to rescue the hostages. Gurdus' stories are picked up all over the world. "I am a reporter," he says. "But my sources are radio waves...
Their deaths and the Vietnam war are topics Lewis has agonized over throughout his career as a journalist--the Kennedys commemorated in his biweekly New York Times column, and his disapproval of the war sounded repeatedly in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
...call of duty for TIME foreign correspondents inevitably has its hazards. New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger was inside the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, in November of last year when it was attacked and burned by an angry mob. She was the only journalist present, and her first-person account of the siege and subsequent rescue became part of a TIME cover story. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White was in Kampala for this week's World story on the Uganda elections when he and Photographer Bill Campbell were trapped for two hours at the downtown cable office under...
Last September, Le Canard reported that Bokassa had hired a journalist named Roger Delpey to write his biography. He turned over to Delpey some 187 documents, many believed to be embarrassing to Giscard. Delpey was arrested on charges of "compromising the external policy of France" and jailed without trial. The documents were seized. Later, several that were considered crucial to Delpey's defense were removed...
...affluent New York City furrier, a student in Paris during the '20s, newspaperman, war correspondent and three-time husband, lastly to the late short-story writer Jean Stafford. Wayward Reporter tells more about the writer's work than about his life. Yet Sokolov, a New York journalist and restaurant critic, conveys the essential craftsman and gourmand who sopped up the life around him with the same melancholy hunger he displayed at lunch...