How do journalists decide what to pursue and what to publish? How do owners and editors work together? What has happened in the field since corporations took the reins at many news organizations? Learn more about the story-behind-the-story in different mediums.
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Lowell Bergman learned that Westinghouse, the parent company of CBS News, was more interested in protecting the company’s assets than in airing a controversial story that he produced for "60 Minutes" about a tobacco company.
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Florence Graves talks about the changes in news reporting and consumption.
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Dean Baquet talks about how corporate owners of newspapers pay "lip service" to public service.
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Florence Graves talks about her work founding and editing the magazine that won two-dozen investigative journalism awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
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Donald Barlett and James Steele talk about their ground-breaking, nine-part series in The Philadelphia Inquirer called America What Went Wrong.
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Carl Bernstein laments the debasement of mainstream journalism as a disservice to the American people and to a thriving democracy.
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Walt Bogdanich talks about how his immigrant father’s love for American democracy influenced his decision to become an investigative reporter.
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Ben Bradlee talks about the importance of a good relationship between a newspaper owner and editor.
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John Carroll talks about building the Los Angeles Times into an award-winning newspaper.
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John Carroll talks about how the Chicago-based owner of The Los Angeles Times, Tribune Media, mandated massive staff cuts and how he ultimately refused to fire any more people and resigned.
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