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99-Year-Old Recalls Risking Life for Holocaust Survivors [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsThe "Today" show has previewed a documentary about a remarkable woman who told the world the harrowing story of a group of Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe. Jewish-American photojournalist Ruth Gruber was 36 and working for the New York Herald Tribune in 1947 when she was sent to document the plight of 4,500 refugees aboard the Exodus, which was bombed by British ships enforcing a blockade. The Jewish passengers on the Exodus -- all of whom had escaped death camps -- would have been sent back to Germany if not for Gruber's photos, which spread around the world. Visit msnbc.com for ...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer: Nobody Does It Better
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Two Weddings and an E-mail
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAs some may have heard, Chelsea Clinton is getting married on Saturday in a multimillion-dollar wedding. People have said the event is excessive, especially in these tough times. Others, the U.K. Guardian's, Paul Harris, observe, after the family scandals she endured, Chelsea deserves an extraordinary wedding, and still others react with a yawn. For a few, the yawn morphs into a sneer. In the comment section of the Guardian, Harris was upbraided for his sycophancy: "You write informed pieces about Detroit and then end up writing this dreadful crap about the Clinton daughter. Were you hoping ...
Journalism Legend Daniel Schorr Dies at 93
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 23) -- Veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr, whose hard-hitting reporting for CBS got him on President Richard Nixon's notorious "enemies list" in the 1970s, has died. He was 93. Schorr died Friday at a Washington hospital after a brief illness, said Anna Christopher, a spokeswoman for National Public Radio, where Schorr continued to work as a senior news analyst and commentator. Schorr's career of more than six decades spanned the spectrum of journalism - beginning in print, then moving to television where he spent 23 years with CBS News and ending with NPR. He ...
Opinion: The Sherrod Saga's Lessons for Journalists
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(July 22) -- The 24-hour fall and rise of Shirley Sherrod should be a teaching moment for the U.S. media as well as the Obama administration. It used to be -- back in the dinosaur age when I started at United Press International in the 1970s -- that reporters picked up the phone and actually called people alleged to have said controversial things before going public with a story. It was called the right of fair comment. I never went to journalism school -- UPI was my J-school – but I assume someone still teaches this dusty principle to those quixotic enough to want to join this ...
The Top 20 Political Journalists on Twitter
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyHere are the 20 essential mainstream political reporters to follow on Twitter. To be sure, this list might be controversial, and, not surprisingly, it skews young. But these are all top-notch journalists who do real journalism, yet also understand the importance of using new media to interact with a community of followers. Many top journalists didn't make this list because they don't Tweet much, or they don't interact with their followers. Remember, this isn't a "best reporters" list (OK, some of these folks are the best reporters); these are the best reporters to follow on Twitter. 1. ...
Chaos Theory - President Karzai and the Press . . . It's Complicated
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'Anonymous' Captured Neda's Death, and Now the Polk Award
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIn Farsi her name means "voice." Almost instantaneously, screengrabs of 26-year-old student Neda Agha-Soltan, shot through the heart on June 20, 2009, by the Iranian regime's hired guns, became the face of a movement. So powerful was the 40-second video of Neda dying before our eyes, the regime tried to denounce it as a fake. When that didn't work, they blamed Neda's death on unarmed protesters and the CIA. ...
Nan Robertson, 'Girls in the Balcony' Author, Dead at 83
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe legal battle for "workplace parity" at The New York Times waged by a group of courageous women at the paper helped pave the way for female journalists like myself to have equal opportunities in the business. Nan Robertson wrote the history about the fight in "The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times." Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, died Tuesday. She was 83.The balcony in the title of Robertson's book is a reference to the National Press Club, which banned women from membership until 1971, so it's not ancient history. Back then, when ...
The Gulag for Two American Journalists
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyWhen I heard that two Current TV journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea, the first thing that came to mind was the testimony of former prisoner Ms. Soon Ok Lee. ...
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