Word: woestendiek
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...dogged, committed reporting that illuminates local problems and helps bring about change. Several such stories were honored last week with the newspaper world's most coveted award, the Pulitzer Prize. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an unusual coup, won two in the same category, investigative reporting. One went to John Woestendiek, whose day-to-day coverage of the prison beat led him to probe the case of Terence McCracken Jr., a teenager convicted of murdering an elderly man during a holdup. Woestendiek's yearlong investigation, which included interviews with several witnesses who placed McCracken elsewhere at the time of the crime...
...David Kraslow, publisher of the Miami News and a 1962 Nieman fellow: Patricia Nelson Limerick, assistant professor of History: Frieda W. Morris, midwest bureau chief of NBC News; Garry Orren '68, a polling expert and associate professor of Public Policy: George Wilson, publisher of the Concord Monitor and William Woestendiek, executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star...
...Bill Woestendiek, the newsman fired by Washington's WETA-TV because his wife was hired to flack for Martha Mitchell, has a new job as editor-publisher of the Colorado Springs Sun. Wife Kay will join him as women's editor, leaving Martha in the lurch. That will hardly bother the Woes-tendieks' new boss, Vegas-based Publisher Hank Greenspun. After Mrs. Mitchell's famous call asking the Arkansas Gazette to "crucify" Senator Fulbright for his Carswell vote, Greenspun wrote an editorial suggesting that she made the call after "toasting the ill health of every Communist...
...necessarily tainted by his wife's choice of employer? WETA at least could have waited to see if Woestendiek's news judgment did in fact suffer from Kay's flacking for Martha. And if WETA really wanted to adopt...
Caesar's-wife attitude on conflict of interest, why had it not bothered to fire Station Chairman Max Kampelman, who is an adviser to Hubert Humphrey? Perhaps the unkindest cut of all was in the Woestendiek family's income. Kay isn't sure yet what she'll be earning from Martha, but it hardly will make up for Bill's lost salary...