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...return, McGovern "double-crossed" the Knight Ridder team, according to McCartney, holding a press conference that revealed Eagleton's psychological history and destroyed Boyd's exclusive story...
...antithesis of the sort of ego-driven Washington bureau chief who stepped all over his reporters," says James McCartney, a 25-year Knight Ridder veteran columnist and reporter who worked under Boyd. "He was the best editor I ever...
According to McCartney, Boyd's linguistic gift as a political storyteller was closely connected to his "low key" nature...
...hallmark of Bob Boyd's writing," McCartney says, "is that he can explain in simple and understandable language very un-understandable things...
Boyd's understated style--McCartney remembers one day walking into his own office to find the bureau chief vacuuming it--never compromised the tenacity of his reporting, according to his colleagues and competitors. Washington Post reporter David Broder says his colleague brings tremendous energy to his work...