Edward Wasserman
Edward Wasserman, a veteran South Florida newspaper editor and writer, is the Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Previously, Wasserman worked for news organizations in Maryland, Wyoming and New York City, was executive business editor of The Miami Herald and CEO and editor in chief of American Lawyer Media's Miami-based Daily Business Review chain. He was educated at Yale, the University of Paris and the London School of Economics.
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RECENT COLUMNS
Media monopolies still can't unearth the truth
The affair of Jessica Lynch, the U.S. Army private who was injured in Iraq and rescued in a commando raid, seems unrelated to monopoly control of the media. But the handling of her story offers good reason to cheer Senate elders for moving to reverse the ideologically besotted Federal Communications Commission decision to trash safeguards against deepening concentration of media ownership. (
06/30/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
What the government could learn from the media
For all their differences, at the moment the Bush White House and The New York Times have a lot in common. Each faces a serious challenge to its credibility. (
06/16/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
The many enablers of a deceiving reporter
Ionce fired a reporter for making things up. I didn't know for a long time what he was doing. The quotes he concocted made his sources sound insightful, so nobody complained. (
05/19/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
