My own experience indicated that no matter where you went, someone else had been there 10 years before and a couple of people had lost their jobs or gone to jail. The New Muckrakers also goes out of its way to give credit to some older muckrakers, the people who kept the sport alive between the glamorous peaks." Admitting that "muck-raking does seem to run in cycles," Reeves noted that "it is possible that it is not quite as influential as Downie sometimes tends to make it. Investigative reporters are different, a point Downie makes in the first 40 pages, his best pages…. But Downie … knows what he's talking about and he gets his points across, including some non-mythical analysis of the work of the Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein…. It is not particularly well-written or well-organized.
JOSHUA DOWNIE DEATH SERIES
SIDELIGHTS: Leonard Downie, Jr.'s The New Muckrakers, a series of profiles of contemporary investigative reporters, was hailed by Richard Reeves in the New York Times Book Review as "the best book I have ever read on the subject. Also contributor to periodicals, including Nation, Potomac, and Washington Monthly. Knopf (New York, NY), 2002.Ĭontributor to Ten Blocks from the White House, edited by Ben W.
Kaiser) The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril, Alfred A. The New Muckrakers, New Republic Books (Washington, DC), 1976. Mortgage on America, Praeger ( New York, NY), 1974. Justice Denied: The Case for Reform of the Courts, Praeger ( New York, NY), 1971. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2003, for The News about the News. MEMBER: American Society of Newspaper Editors.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Front Page Award for news writing, 1967, 1968 American Bar Association gavel award, 1967 John Hancock Insurance Company Award, 1969 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship, 1971–72 LL.D., Ohio State University, 1993 Goldsmith Award, Joan Shorenstein Center, John F. American University, instructor in communications, 1972–73. Member of board of directors, Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, International Herald Tribune.
Washington Post, Washington, DC, reporter, 1965–70, day city editor, 1970–71, deputy metropolitan editor, 1972–79, London correspondent, 1979–82, national editor, 1982–84, managing editor, 1984–91, executive editor, 1991–. NW, Washington, DC 20071-0002.ĬAREER: Journalist and editor. Education: Ohio State University, B.A., 1964, M.A., 1965.ĪDDRESSES: Office-Washington Post Co., 1150 15th St. PERSONAL: Born May 1, 1942, in Cleveland, OH son of Leonard (a sales executive) and Pearl Martha (Evenheimer) Downie married Barbara Lindsey, J(divorced, 1971) married Geraldine Rebach (a nurse), Aug(divorced, 1997) married Janice Galin, Septemchildren: (first marriage) David Leonard, Scott Leonard (second marriage) Joshua Mark, Sarah Elizabeth.
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