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With all the headlines about “fake news,” the liberal media elite don’t have a perfect track record, either. Reporter Jayson Blair concocted stories for the New York Times back in 2003, while Stephen Glass fabricated numerous pieces for The New Republic in the late 1990s. The most notorious scam of this sort was the 1980 front-page Washington Post article by reporter Janet Cooke headlined “Jimmy’s World: 8-Year-Old Heroin Addict Lives for a Fix.”

As publisher of The Washington Post—and a Watergate legend—the late Katharine Graham drew the highest and mightiest to Mohu, her 218-acre Martha's Vineyard summer estate. In an adaptation from her new memoir, MADELEINE BLAIS, an island neighbor, recalls the delights and dilemmas (how to compete with Princess Diana's hostess gift or match the culinary skills of a private French chef?) of her annual rendezvous with Graham

A police officer in Troy, New York, masqueraded as a local TV cameraman to defuse a hostage situation. It worked. But not without harm.

Some reporters can build a career around their own personal brands. But doing great work requires an infrastructure, including a lot of talented people who don't get bylines. Barry Sussman — the Watergate journalist named neither "Woodward" nor "Bernstein" — was one.

He worked closely with the reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in covering the break-in and the subsequent scandal that doomed Richard Nixon.