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...Bill Kovach, the legendary New York Times reporter and editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, (and now the curator of Harvard's Nieman Foundation) is among the best known and most forceful advocates of this point of view...
...Kovach told me that, when he ran The Times' Washington bureau, government officials regularly urged him to kill stories they believed revealed too much. In a career that spanned three decades, Kovach agreed with this logic just once. "I have not seen many cases," Kovach says, "where people, given sufficient information, don't make the right choices...
Kurspahic was in Cambridge yesterday to receive the 1993 Louis M. Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism. A $5,000 honorarium was presented to Kurspahic at a luncheon hosted by Nieman Foundation curator Bill Kovach...
...toasters and the appearance of Leonard Jeffries and we give those issues coverage. The problem with The Crimson is not too many Jewish students but too few Black students. This fall, with the help of DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nieman Foundation Curator Bill Kovach. we began a renewed recruiting drive. We visited student groups, held a minority recruiting meeting and hosted a conference on minorities and journalism. The results were mixed, but The Crimson is committed to continuing and expanding our recruiting efforts...
...diversity is necessary, the idea that only minorities can accurately report and write about minorities is wrong. The Crimson is committed to increasing out diversity through vigorous recruiting, but we do not find it productive to judge a reporter on the basis of race. At the conference this fall, Kovach reminded the assembled students and journalists that a bad reporter, regardless of his or her ethnicity, will do a bad job "A good reporter of whatever background can do a good job reflecting an alien reality," Kovach said. "This is so because the best reporting is transparent. It lets...