Research Catalog

Title

Whatever happened to the Washington reporters : 1978-2012 / Stephen Hess.

Author

Hess, Stephen.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 216 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Follows up on 450 Washington journalists first interviewed in 1978, analyzing career patterns and challenges faced by generation, gender, minority status, news medium, and employer. Explores whether subjects rose within their organization, moved from reporter to editor or from one medium to another, or left journalism and if so, why and for what kind of career"--

Series Statement

• Newswork ; 3
• Hess, Stephen. Newswork ; 3.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Journalists > Washington (D.C.) > Biography
• Reporters and reporting > Washington (D.C.)

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Newswork : how I got there -- Thanks -- What will follow -- 1. "The greatest generation" -- 2. "The boomers" -- 3. The women -- 4. Diversity -- 5. The New York Times -- 6. The networks -- 7. In the right or wrong place -- 8. In the niche -- 9. The Gridiron Club -- 10. Whatever happened to the Washington reporters? -- Appendix: the reporters of 1978 -- Notes -- Index

ISBN

• 9780815723868 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0815723865 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012023187

OCLC

• 795759667
• SCSB-10466677

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library