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...found myself sneaking away from Oxford to do stringing for Newsweek constantly,” Whitaker remembers. “I think it took being away—really away, from my parents, from everything—for me to realize what I wanted to do was journalism...
...that stringing paid off, and Whitaker was offered an entry-level job at Newsweek. He left Oxford and took a three-month trip around the world, taking up Pan-Am airlines on their “80 days around the world for 1,100 pounds” offer—which allowed him to fly for three months as long as he moved in one direction and only took Pan-Am flights...
When he arrived at Newsweek, Whitaker did not have a desk or an office...
Alter soon followed in the footsteps of his college buddies when the editor of the Washington Monthly, Charlie Peters, convinced Bill Broyles, the newly appointed editor of Newsweek, to hire Alter as his assistant and informal “spy.” His role was to help ease the transition and tell Broyles, an outsider of Newsweek, what was going on internally...
Alter worked for seven years as a media critic at Newsweek, and his column on politics, government and social issues has run in the magazine about two out of every three weeks since...