Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978-2012, is the
first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American
journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed
450 journalists who were covering national government for U.S.
commercial news organizations. His study became the award-winning
The Washington Reporters (Brookings, 1981), the first volume in his
Newswork series. Now, a generation later, Hess and his team from
Brookings and the George Washington University have tracked down 90
percent of the original group, interviewing 283, some as far afield
as France, England, Italy, and Australia. What happened to the
reporters within their organizations? Did they change jobs? Move
from reporter to editor or producer? Jump from one type of medium
to another - from print to TV? Did they remain in Washington or go
somewhere else? Which ones left journalism? Why? Where did they go?
A few of them have become quite famous, including television
correspondents Ted Koppel, Sam Donaldson, Brit Hume, Carole
Simpson, Judy Woodruff, and Marvin Kalb; some have become editors
or publishers of the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Chicago
Tribune , Miami Herald, or Baltimore Sun; some have had substantial
careers outside of journalism. Most, however, did not become
household names. The book is designed as a series of self-contained
essays, each concentrating on one characteristic, such as age,
gender, or place of employment, including newspapers, television
networks, wire services, and niche publications. The reporters
speak for themselves. When all of these lively portraits are
analyzed - one by one - the results are surprisingly different from
what journalists and sociologists in 1978 had predicted.
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