Leadership Stories
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The Journalists Who Broke Watergate (Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein, USA)
Woodward and Bernstein didn't beat power with rhetoric. They beat it with bank records. The courage of reporting beats power.
The Journalist Who Made the World See Famine (Mohamed Amin and Michael Buerk, Ethiopia)
A BBC crew filmed Ethiopia's famine in 1984 and the world finally looked. Attention can be a lifeline, but looking is only the start.
Ernie Pyle: War Correspondent
He wrote about the ordinary soldier the way no one else could, and he died with them. John on the life of Ernie Pyle.
Edward R. Murrow's Story and His Enduring Influence on Journalism
From London rooftops during the Blitz to his reports on Senator McCarthy, Edward R. Murrow set a standard of honest reporting. John tells his story.