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THESE DAYS, there's a new sign hanging in The Crimson's newsroom. It quotes Freire: "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral...
Meanwhile, the same students pressure each other to quit smoking. They diligently point out "NO SMOKING" signs in Harvard buildings, but become enraged when the University takes a few feeble steps to enforce alcohol laws. Even The Crimson has outlawed smoking in the newsroom (although vodka shots are actually encouraged...
Murphy eventually made contact with someone who helped her join a convoy making a daring cross-desert escape to the Saudi border. A cheer went up when word reached the Washington Post newsroom last week that she was safe. Through the whole ordeal, the Massachusetts-born Murphy, 43, managed to keep her Yankee sense of thrift. When she telephoned the Post from Riyadh last week, an assistant tried to switch her to foreign editor David Ignatius. Murphy demurred. "This hotel is charging too much. Have David call me back...
Downie has won applause from his reporters for making fairness a crusade. But he has also aroused some resentment in the newsroom by enforcing fairness in ways that more activist staffers consider stultifying. After he learned that some of his reporters had joined in a pro-choice abortion rally last year, Downie rightly reminded the staff that they had forfeited the right to protest when they chose to work in journalism. Earlier this year, he sent an uncharacteristically stinging memo to his top editors charging that the Post's coverage of the abortion issue had been lopsidedly biased against...
...figures. He permitted some reporters to work as long as two years on a single investigative project. The results were an impressive 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years, including one this year for a five-part series on the safety of the nation's blood banks. "Roberts assembled a newsroom that was, pound for pound, better than anyone's," says Charles Eisendrath, director of the University of Michigan's Journalism Fellows Program...