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...sports reporter for Newsday, the Long Island, N.Y. newspaper and one of the nation's largest dailies, Jackson says he wants to portray the athletes he covers as people, not just the makers of scores and statistics...
...America, achievement in sports promises a better way of life for the "underprivileged," says the 28-year-old Black reporter. But as he explained in a six-part series in Newsday three years ago, Blacks' progress and success in sports is often measured in "dollars, not sense...
This year a Nieman fellow at Harvard, the Newsday reporter adds that "a disturbing number of athletes fail to prepare for careers away from the field," concluding that "salaries aside, professional Black athletes with incomplete educations suffer the same problems as Blacks in America...
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in communications, Jackson immediately went to work in the sports department of the Milwaukee Journal. Soon after, in 1978, Jackson brought his typewriter and interest in New York sports rivaries to Newsday...
...small fishing boat as the invasion was starting. On Day 2 of the invasion, having learned that telex and telephone lines had been knocked out in the fighting, four of the reporters-Don Bohning of the Miami Herald, Edward Cody of the Washington Post, Morris Thompson of Newsday and Greg Chamberlain of Britain's Guardian-accepted a U.S. military offer to be airlifted to the U.S.S. Guam, a helicopter carrier, in the belief that they could file their dispatches back to the U.S. from there. Instead, the reporters found themselves, as Bohning later put it, "more or less captives...