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Brits vs. Yanks: Who does journalism right?
I think a sense of passion and immediacy is missing from some of [investigative] reporting these days; the kind of maverick, skeptical intensity brought to journalism by reporters such as The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, for example. I also sense that there are not enough people like that in daily journalism today: reporters who dig, and dig fast, and whom authorities know, for sure, will challenge them or their accounts.
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus
· There aren't enough people like Hersh in journalism today
[ via Columbia Journalism Review ]
· Writing your own obit can be therapeutic, inspiring
· See Also "Attack" review: "This is a book by, about and for insiders" (Newsday)