Word: tennessean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part-time, night-shift copy editor who rarely did any reporting, Jacque Srouji, 31, had remarkably good sources at the FBI. Hardly had she rejoined the Nashville Tennessean last fall after five years as a housewife and freelance writer when she was able to give its editors late-night details about a statewide FBI strike against illegal betting parlors and tip them off about a raid on a local business suspected of fraud...
...thus became the first journalist to be identified as an FBI informant since the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recently disclosed that the bureau has for years been using reporters and editors in various collaborative roles. And she became the first journalist to be fired for such activity when Tennessean Publisher John Seigenthaler summarily dismissed...
...Karen Silkwood (TIME, Jan. 20, 1975). An Oklahoma plutonium worker active in her union, Silkwood was killed in a 1974 auto accident while on the way to tell a reporter about alleged health and nuclear safety violations in the plant where she worked. Just before returning to the Tennessean, Srouji finished writing Critical Mass, a paean to the nuclear industry to be released this summer by Aurora Publishers Inc., a small Nashville concern. The book casts Silkwood in an unflattering light, raising questions about drug usage and her sex habits. Called last month to testify before a House subcommittee investigating...
Also, Wendy L. Moonan, editor of Juris Doctor Magazine; E. Eugene Pell '59, chief of Foreign News Service, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in London; James R. Scudder, assistant city editor of The Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, Ark.; Elaane Shannon, Washington correspondent for The Nashville Tennessean; and Joseph D. Whitaker, reporter for The Washington Post...
Dark of the Moon, by Howard Richardson and William Berney, purports to be a folk drama about Tennessean witches. This witch boy wants to be a real boy but the girl he's in love with breaks her supernatural contract and he has to go back to witchery. Word is that she, on the other hand, got a job taking dictation at the White House, Tonight till Saturday, 8 p.m. in the Leverett Old Library...