Retired Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
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A victory for the First Amendment and a free and independent press. wapo.st/2FnR9WV?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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On political endorsement wapo.st/3YmeD3T
This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.
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Mueller report suggests the ‘fake news’ came from Trump, not the news media washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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In December, Spicer said barring media access is what a 'dictatorship' does. Today, he barred media access. wpo.st/Akid2
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“By threatening a journalist who publishes information that he dislikes, the president promotes and instigates serious attacks on freedom of expression. Without free journalism, the other freedoms will also die." Brazil's @abraji re threats v @ggreenwald wapo.st/2ZlxE72?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Donald Trump today revoked press credentials for @washingtonpost. My statement here.
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Watch The Washington Post’s Super Bowl message: wapo.st/democracydiesindarkn…
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First-ever @washingtonpost Super Bowl spot will highlight the importance of newsgathering and the dangers journalists can face. wapo.st/2GjpLbl?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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“This is the worst coverup I’ve ever seen ... Where is the body? Why did it take seventeen days to come up with this account?” washingtonpost.com/world/nat…
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PR rep asked @washingtonpost, other reporters to leave: "This is not the story we want." wapo.st/2pkbkIJ?tid=ss_tw
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Honored to be a colleague of the winners of @PulitzerPrizes at @washingtonpost. So proud of their courageous, meticulous, persistent work.
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Extraordinary, courageous editorial in the @denverpost : “Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom.” denverpost.com/2018/04/06/as…
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An appalling attack on a free press. washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Very proud to be a @washingtonpost colleague of @Fahrenthold, the hugely deserving winner of the @PulitzerPrize for national reporting.
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"Cloak of invisibility": Some federal data gets harder to find. Other data has vanished entirely. wapo.st/2pL2YtN?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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.@washingtonpost sued twice for release of these docs over 3-year FOIA battle that continues. 2,000 pages of unpublished notes & transcripts from 428 interviews were released. Docs ID 62 interviewees. Post still seeks 366 names that remain blacked out. wapo.st/afghanistan-war-conf…
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An attack on one of the world’s bravest journalists. nytimes.com/2018/11/09/busin…
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"Before Khashoggi’s disappearance, U.S. intelligence intercepted communications of Saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him, according to a person familiar with the information." wapo.st/2pMeB5o?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election, say independent researchers wpo.st/PHWG2
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Just as the U.S. editor of @guardian said: The president's remarks run "the risk of inviting other assaults on journalists both here and across the world." wapo.st/2q1aQJm?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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A.G. Sulzberger of @nytimes says “let me tell you a story I’ve never shared publicly before.” That story and one other raise unsettling questions about how the US government might respond when American journalists are under threat overseas. nyti.ms/2mEuVH7
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"These two admirable reporters have already spent nearly nine months in prison on false charges designed to silence their reporting and intimidate the press." reut.rs/2Q0Qsnx
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Vindictive abuse of power washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Time’s Person of the Year: ‘Guardians’ of the truth, including slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi washingtonpost.com/arts-ente…
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I've been working on this book since my retirement from @washingtonpost at the end of February 2021. Here's a look at the cover.
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“No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back." wapo.st/2qPPRtD?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Google's top news link for 'final election results' goes to a fake news site with false numbers wpo.st/r8EE2
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.@sulliview Journalists will need to be "better -- stronger, more courageous, stiffer-spined" than ever. wpo.st/c7vC2
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Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar free at last. reut.rs/2Y8pZaV
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"While the conversation was cordial, the subtext was clear: Khashoggi no longer lived under Saudi rule, but the country’s most powerful royal was monitoring his every word." His final 18 months: wapo.st/2EH9QTg?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Together on the stage at the Polk Awards: @nytimes and @washingtonpost . Congrats to two teams of extraordinary journalists.
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Donald Trump's contradictory attacks on the media: one day "they have no sources"; another day, stop the leaks. wpo.st/J4sd2
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"It was coverage that probably proved lifesaving for many Alabama residents, and it blew away veteran broadcast meteorologists with its clarity, thoroughness and calm-yet-serious tone." washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
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"How do you address beliefs when they’re not rooted in reality? How do you tell someone, I’m trying to treat your fears seriously, but your facts don’t exist? How, as individuals, and how, as a country?" wapo.st/2mrAYvd?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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"The notes also described how the president said that he wanted to see reporters in jail for leaks ... " wapo.st/2pSghbY?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Thoughtful piece by @stevenwaldman, who is expert in this subject: Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity cjr.org/opinion/waldman-bezo… via @cjr
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A huge loss to vigorous and civil debate on public policy. wapo.st/2tsN9LH?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Prosecutor: Gianforte will plead guilty to assaulting reporter. wapo.st/2snf0y7?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Saudi Arabia fires 5 top officials, arrests 18 Saudis after saying Khashoggi was killed in a fight at consulate in Istanbul. Previously asserted that he left consulate alive and that they had no information about his whereabouts. wapo.st/2pYAw9w?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Turkey concludes that prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Saudi consulate, two people familiar with the probe say washingtonpost.com/news/worl…
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Good moment to remember what happens to real journalists who cover Mexican drug traffickers washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned. wapo.st/2oC2IAc?tid=ss_tw
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When a crusading Maltese journalist was murdered, her sons vowed justice. Almost miraculously, it’s happening. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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"The purpose of FOIA is to open up federal agencies to public scrutiny. But officials determined to thwart the spirit of the law can drag out requests for years, hoping requesters will eventually give up." washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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The press always got booed at Trump rallies. But now the aggression is menacing. wpo.st/M6J62
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Beautiful piece by Sally Jenkins on her dad, the great sportswriter Dan Jenkins: "He loved how great athletes could make excellence look nonchalant, and he strived for the same effect on the page." wapo.st/2J1YjC0?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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“It turns out that everything that is bad news has been classified for the last few years.” washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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The story behind the @Fahrenthold story on Donald Trump. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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I’m so delighted, and hugely honored, that @LievSchreiber agreed to narrate the audio version of “Collision of Power.” ew.com/movies/liev-schreiber…
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WaPo "seems to be doing something unique in daily journalism: It is adding journalists early in the year." politi.co/2hKhXk1
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The reality of journalism: Brave reporting like this by @partlowj of @washingtonpost and colleague @lopezismael. wapo.st/2mijMZ4?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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.@sulliview: Facebook needs an exec editor plus "fact-checking, gut-checking and a big helping of common sense." wpo.st/fJgF2
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Congrats, @costareports, on taking helm at ‘Washington Week’. Best line here: He "will remain" at @washingtonpost wapo.st/2pIzsZa?tid=ss_tw
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El poder y valor de periodismo investigativo @cpipr cnn.com/2019/07/22/media/inv…
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As a secretive hedge fund guts its newspapers, journalists are fighting back wapo.st/2GXlX1e?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Politicians v. reporters: “People often ask me if it’s ever been this bad before ... it's actually been worse." wapo.st/2r0zg5G?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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"These men and women are the face of American newspapering, because community papers are where so much original journalism actually happens." wapo.st/2lGR7wt?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Recalling when DJT called @nytimes "American jewel" that would be "happy" with his commitment to First Amendment nyti.ms/2kdpBE4
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What next? . . . Trump calls the media 'the enemy of the American People' wpo.st/leTc2
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It really was heartening to see 1,800 journalists at an investigative journalism conference. @IRE_NICAR nyti.ms/2I8ITpL
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"Over the years, a Pinocchio has entered the Washington political lexicon as a unit of dishonesty. Now it defines the zeitgeist." nyti.ms/2Mk82UD @glennkesslerwp @washingtonpost
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Recently acquired home. Hasn’t been furnished yet. Give me time. Plus, dimmers being put in next week. So, we agree on that.
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"He does not like people who abuse power." wapo.st/2OrWoW9?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Yielding to pressure from @LizSeymour, I finally wrote about my experience with @SpotlightMovie wpo.st/x18F1
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Thank you to the brave Bill Branigin of @washingtonpost for remembering Joe Alex Morris Jr. of @latimes and for telling this story of courageous, caring journalists. washingtonpost.com/history/2…
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Here's to the lawyers who fight for press (and public) access. How a sole practitioner (& ex-Akron Beacon Journal @ohiodotcom reporter) and two law professors won release of a trove of opioid data. washingtonpost.com/health/ho…
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Harassment of the press gets worse: @washingtonpost reporter patted down by police, then barred at Pence rally wpo.st/pT7p1
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I'm delighted to announce that @Laura_K_Hughes, political correspondent of the @ft, will be the Stern Fellow this year at the @washingtonpost, joining the superb young British journalists who have covered the American scene as part of the @sternfellowship.
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Adapted excerpt of "Collision of Power" appears today in @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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"I can’t help but think: this is a bad, sad and dangerous day for a country where we have for so long valued — and taken for granted — a free press.” washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Plane carrying Jason Rezaian, wife, mom, others has left Iran. #JasonIsFree
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Delighted to see my wonderful colleagues @mccrummenWaPo @bethreinhard & @alice_crites collect the Polk Award for political reporting (on Roy Moore).
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El primer episodio de nuestro podcast en español: washingtonpost.com/es/el-was…
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"another reminder of the ease with which pranksters and other dishonest actors are able to manipulate online platforms to sometimes unthinkable results." wapo.st/2BhE7r7?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Journalism is an increasingly risky business. Here are five journalists who know this all too well. washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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WaPo's David @Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Donald Trump wpo.st/f7vO2
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"The message that the government is sending is very clear: Be silent or you're next. So I'm saying, and I'm appealing to you, not to be silent." @mariaressa cnn.it/2tlzhTy
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What do we hear for @_cingraham making deadline his top priority? Crickets. washingtonpost.com/business/…
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"our presence was also a stand for a free press when that fundamental concept is so cavalierly cast in doubt, as well as a reminder . . . of the essential value of robust local journalism, now also in doubt." nyti.ms/2YEmKIW
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West Virginia journalist arrested after asking HHS Secretary Tom Price a question wapo.st/2pxHy3w?tid=ss_tw
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"Lose the smugness, keep the mission." -- @sulliview on how journalism must be reinvented. wpo.st/s5XI2
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I'm emerging from Twitter hibernation to announce the publication of my book "Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post" on October 3. Now available for pre-order: us.macmillan.com/books/97812…
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"her deception . . . went much further than the attempt to plant one fabricated article." wapo.st/2AgI4uM?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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“Alarming and a direct threat to the public’s right to know about what is happening inside their government.” wapo.st/2IDfzNh?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Thanks for your interest, @katyperry washingtonpost.com/video/ent…
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.@jeffbezos gives $1 million gift to support press freedom poynter.org/2017/jeff-bezos-…
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"Lost in our growing partisan divide over national government and the performance of the media is the understanding that your local newspaper truly is your watchdog, a powerful tool for revealing and preventing public corruption and irresponsibility." mcall.com/opinion/white/mc-o…
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“This is not right, this is wrong, this cannot be allowed to stand." Exactly.
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.@iamjohnoliver embraces "actual journalism," advises supporting @washingtonpost, @nytimes, @propublica, others. piped.video/-rSDUsMwakI
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Nice to see Column One (which I edited for a couple of years) make its return at the @latimes. latimes.com/local/great-read…
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“My physical response to your legitimate question was unprofessional, unacceptable, and unlawful." theguardian.com/us-news/2017…
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