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...adult children regret not getting to know - really know - their parents before they pass. Few get a chance to make up for that. John Dickerson, a former TIME correspondent, has written a biography, On Her Trail, about his mother Nancy Dickerson, a pioneering female television journalist. After she died in 1997, he inherited her papers and diaries and eventually discovered a different woman than the one he thought he knew. In the process, he also uncovered a rich history of Washington society and the press during the 1960s and '70s. Dickerson spoke with TIME's Ana Marie...
...great for a while. She was able to see what no other journalist was and she knew the men in power better than most of her colleagues. I tend to think that's OK, especially today. The news diet is full of unknowing criticism and praise. Why not have at least one person who is on the inside who can present a knowing, if limited, view. In the end Mom was undone by her access. She was too close to the politicians and her bosses at NBC didn't like that. No reporter today could get as close...
Whether or not anyone in the Kremlin had targeted Litvinenko, his death, coming just weeks after the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in her Moscow apartment block, has sent a subzero chill over Russia's already frosty civil society. Human-rights campaigners and other Putin critics see the killing as the latest blow to democracy and free speech, part of a steady erosion of civil liberties. Russian democracy was chaotically vibrant just a decade ago, after the collapse of communism in 1991. But these days it is looking fragile. New legislation annuls independent candidates for the Duma (parliament...
Risk figures can be twisted in more disastrous ways too. Last year's political best seller, The One Percent Doctrine, by journalist Ron Suskind, pleased or enraged you, depending on how you felt about war in Iraq, but it hit risk analysts where they live. The title of the book is drawn from a White House determination that if the risk of a terrorist attack in the U.S. was even 1%, it would be treated as if it were a 100% certainty. Critics of Administration policy argue that that 1% possibility was never properly balanced against the 100% certainty...
Gerald M. Boyd, the first black managing editor and metropolitan editor at The New York Times, died last week in Manhattan at the age of 56. Boyd, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1980-1981, was the youngest journalist to receive the fellowship at the time. Boyd, who led Pulitzer prize winning coverage at The Times, resigned from his post as managing editor in 2003 in the wake of a plagiarism scandal surrounding Times reporter Jayson Blair. Boyd was well-equipped to handle the pressures of being black in a largely white profession, said David Lamb, one of Boyd?...