Eric Lipton

Background

Eric Lipton has been working as a jounralist for 30 years at The Washinton Post and the Hartford Courant.  Lipton covered the attacks of 9-11 and has since been covering most happenings in the current government. As of the last few years, Lipton has been writing aboyut the Trump administration . Lipton investigates and reports incidents in all different areas of the government. Lipton has done loads of stories and has even published multiple highly-rated books. One story in particular is called "City In the Sky: The Rise and Fall of The World Trade Center." This story focuses on the atacks of 9-11 and all of the information that was released following the tragic events. Another story I found and read was named "Trump's Campaign To Subvert the Election." This article was posted to The New York Times and it is very clearly influenced by the left. The Entire article describes how Trump incited violence and is causing mayhem within our borders. This goes to show that the media portrays stories very differently depending on the agenda they must coincide with. Another story I found on the New York Times was called "City Had Been Warned of Fuel Tank 7 At World Trade Center." This article was published only 2 months after the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lipton discusses the fuel tank that was awkwardly placed in the middle of the building instead of underground like normal. This was a very popular topic at the time and everyone was curious to know what really happened. Eric Lipton seems to target the largest audience and report the news they want to hear.

Lipton has been a finalist and received many awards during his career including:

- 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism 

- 2015 Pulitzer Price for Investigative Journalism 

- 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Errin Haines

Errin Haines is an American journalist, she normally covers politics, civil rights, voting rights, and race. She has received four accolades "2006 - Emerging Journalist Award, National Association of Black Journalists 2009 - Award of Excellence, Atlanta Press Club 2017 - Print Journalist of the Year, Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists 2020 - Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence, Morgan State University." Haines currently works for "The 19th" as the editor-at-large. Errin Haines is a freelance journalist. Haines is well known for her story on the shooting of Breonna Taylor, as well as the first reporter to interview Kamala Harris after Kamala being nominated for vice-president, one of her stories titled "A Grand Jury Indicts One Officer Involved in the Breonna Taylor Case" this story (written 6 months after Breonna was fatally shot in her apartment) shed a light on the anger and the disrespect black people were feeling. It had information about the grand jury disappointing but not surprising decision. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errin_Haines https://19thnews.org/author/errin-haines/page/2/ https://19thnews.org/2020/09/breonna-taylor-grand-jury-indicts-one-officer/

Carl Bernstein: by John Mason

 

Carl Bernstein

            Carl Bernstein is an American author and investigative journalist. The accomplishments and work that Bernstein has completed over the years make him extremely popular and a name to be recognized within the mass media industry. The area that Bernstein has focused his work on is politics. One of Bernstein’s most famous pieces of work was in the 1970s during the Watergate Scandal which involved President Nixon and his resignation from president. At the time, Bernstein was employed by the Washington Post and has been given much of the credit for exposing the truth behind the scandal. He was on top of all the reporting and creating the articles in the newspaper to inform the public. Here is a link to the Watergate Story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/part1.html. Because of his work during the Watergate Scandal, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize which is recognition for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism. Later, Bernstein eventually left the Washington Post to work as a senior correspondent for ABC-TV. Bernstein is now a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. It is not said now much he gets paid for a story, but he has an estimated net worth of $20 million. Bernstein wrote a book called Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir which is about his parents having an encounter with McCarthism. Another work done by Bernstein is called A Woman in Charge which is a biography about Hillary Clinton. Carl Bernstein has been very successful in his life thus far and continues to strive for excellence by helping the public and keeping them entertained and informed.

Sources

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbernsteinC.htm

Fredricka Whitfield

 fredricka whitfield

Do they have an area of interest they normally cover: national, international, human rights, politics, economics, etc.?

• Fredricka Whitfield's area of interest is mostly politics, she covers a lot of stories on the presidential election and what has been going on since the election has been over. She also has done stories on natural disasters. 

Have they received awards recognizing their work?

• Yes she has received many awards. She has received the 2002 Howard University School of Communications Alumna of the Year Award, the 2005 George Peabody Award for live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the 2005 Ebony Award for outstanding women in marketing and communications, the 2007 Emmy Award for outstanding live coverage of a breaking news story long form, the 2008 National Alliance of Market Developers Communicator of the Year Award, the 2008 Howard University Postgraduate Achievement in the Field of Journalism Award, and the 2009 New York Association of Black Journalists Long-Form Feature Award. 

Who do they work for?

• Fredricka Whitfield works for CNN.

Are they freelance or do they have a steady employer?

• She has a steady employer, considering she works for CNN and is one of their anchors for the weekend edition of newsroom.

How much do they get paid for a story?

• It doesn't say how much she gets paid per story, but it says her salary is about 95,000 per year. 

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/women-making-a-mark/fredricka-whitfield/

Fredricka Whitfield was the first anchor to break the news of Ronald Reagan's death. She also has reported the devastating Asian tsunami which occurred in December 2004. Whitfield also reported from the Persian Gulf region during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Ronan Farrow: Investigative Journalist

By: Taylor Aiello 

Ronan Farrow is a popular American journalist. He is best known for his investigative reporting of allegations of sexual abuse against Harvey Weinstein in 2017. This piece in specific, was published in The New Yorker and had won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Farrow also exposed additional allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, Eric Schneiderman, and Les Moonves. Today, he currently makes regular appearances on the NBC show, Today. More specifically, he hosted the “Undercover with Ronan Farrow” on the Today show.  

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories  

In Ronan Farrow’s, “From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories,” several women report their accounts of sexual assault and harassment by Weinstein. The piece begins with Farrow going into detail about Harvey Weinstein’s life, and how he was a powerful man as a film executive. Farrow also explains that although Weinstein has faced assault allegations in the past, none of the claims have been supported by sufficient evidence. However, Farrow’s investigative piece differs in that he completed a ten-month investigation, where he was informed that between the 1990s and 2015, thirteen women had been sexually assaulted by Weinstein. Additionally, numerous people admitted to knowing about the unwanted sexual advances. Therefore, Farrow uncovered imperative information in the case against Harvey Weinstein.  

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse  

In Farrow’s “Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse,” Eric Schneiderman is exposed for sexual misconduct. Now the ex-attorney general, Schneiderman denied all allegations made against him. Farrow disagreed and stated that “it wasn’t a gray area at all. This was activity that happened in many cases fully clothed outsider of a sexual context during arguments.”  

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/les-moonves-and-cbs-face-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct 

In “Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct,” Farrow exposes Les Moonves, the former C.E.O of CBS Corporation, of harassment and intimidation. Farrow reported six different accounts of women coming forward saying they have experienced abuse in the workplace at the hands of Moonves.  

  

Sheila Coronel

Sheila Coronel by Autumn Golden

Sheila Coronel is an investigative journalist who started her work in her home country of the Philippines. Coronel focuses on politics and has been specializing in human rights in police corruption in some of her recent articles. During her career as an investigative journalist, she won the 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts. SInce 2006, Coronel has been a professor of investigative journalism and even promoted to dean of academic affairs at Columbia University in New York. 

https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/sheila-coronel

This Is How Democracy Dies

In this article, Coronel describes how she is watching democracy die in the Philippines with the judge sentenced a reporter and an author to jail for an article and a crime that “didn't exist” at the time of publishing the article. She compares this to when dictator Ferdinand Marcos sent hundred of journalists, reporters, and politicians to jail in 1972 and shut down most news outlets at the same time. By withholding information to the public and/or penalizing journalists for sharing this information, democracy is falling from citizen's grasp. 

Commentary: Still reeling from Duterte’s war on drugs, Manila’s poor hit hardest by COVID-19

Here, Coronel comments on how Duerete instructed officers to kill thousands of “suspected drug users and sellers” in order to combat drugs in Manila. This massacre on day one of his rule showed how little he cared for people and trying to get them the help they need to recover from the illness that is addiction. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the same is seen. Duerete does not seek to help those in need who get left behind and have no choice but to turn to “criminal” activity to try and sustain themselves and their families.

Opinion: A warning from the Philippines on how a demagogue can haunt politics for decades

In this article, Coronel begins by describing celebrations people had in America when Joe Biden was elected as the president in 2020. In her home country of the Philippines, celebrating is not as easy to come by. There, voting does not solve issues the way it appears to in the United States. In the ’70s, Ferdinand Marcos claimed himself as president and even held an inauguration to “solidify” it. He had the military on his side which allowed for this to take place. Over time as riots and protesting persisted, the citizens eventually ran him and his family out of the presidential palace which led them to flee to Hawaii. The current leader of the Philippines is a fan of Marcos and has shown signs of following in his footsteps of authoritarian rule with the way his campaign was funded by the Marcos family, and many of the family members holding positions in the government.

Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward is a known investigative journalist located in America. He is known to be involved in government investigations. Bob has a big area of interest influencing the government. He has also been involved in celebrity investigations as well. Bob’s most known case was The Watergate Story. 

   

He has received nearly every major American journalism award. Some of the rewards he has been awarded are the Heywood Broun Award, Sigma Delta Chi Award, William Allen White Medal, George Polk Award, and Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting. Bob started working for The Washington Post as a reporter but is currently holding his title as an associate editor. His current net worth is 25 million, but he did not clarify how much he makes per story. 

The Watergate Story 

The story began with a burglary needed for the investigation. Two men worked in the Nixon White House. They began to learn that weird ways of communication through the White House were occurring. $25,000 check for Nixon's was deposited in one of the burglar's bank account. Not only did this happen, but four other burglaries also happened overtime as well. With further investigation, they learned that Nixon was connected to these burglaries. They discovered different evidence to confirm these facts on these burglaries. As a result of this, Nixon's career was ended because of this scandal. People also questioned is the president knew about what was going on. 

Deep Throat

Deep Throat was known for best-kept secrets which were revealed eventually. Bob Woodward also wrote a book about it getting more into what happened and what was revealed. A mysterious source that was kept secret for over thirty years was revealed after being kept secret for very long. There were also myths a part of the secrets that were revealed. 

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/part1.html 

Independent Journalist - Tim Pool

Tim Pool has had a busy career in the journalism and media world.  Early in his career, Pool worked for mainstream companies like Vice and Fusion TV.  Nowadays, he has built his own media empire that helps him to produce his own independent works. 

Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Pool saw a lot of terrible crimes and conflicts every day.  He knew it wasn’t just happening in his city either.  Places all around the world were struggling and were riddled with violence.  Pool left school at the age of fourteen and began live streaming protests.  The first live stream he did that gained a lot of recognition was the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.  Not only did Pool create livestreams for the event, but he also developed a new way to view the protests; from above.  As a foreshadow to his future entrepreneurship career, Pool developed a way to live-stream from a drone flying above the action.   

His work during the Occupy protests got Pool national attention through NBC and other mainstream medias including Vice.   They offered Pool a position at Vice and he began writing articles for them.  While at Vice in 2013, Pool wrote articles on the Gezi Park protests with Google glass and mass protests in Ukraine that led to the fall of the Yanukovych government.   

Later in his career, Pool found himself at the Milwaukee riots in 2016 and discovered a possible line that he would not plan on crossing.  He found the events to be dangerous due to the escalating “racial tensions”.  By 2017 Pool is doing more independent work with stories like the “no-go zones” in Sweden.  He gained funding from other journalists to continue his research in Europe and eventually concluded that the so called “violent” situation with migrants in Sweden were timid compared to the common violence found in his hometown of Chicago. 

Other than being a prominent media journalist and YouTuber, Pool is a media entrepreneur.  Some of his collaborations include a mobile app called Tagg.ly that puts watermarks on photos and co-founded a news company called Subverse (later named SCNR).  Pool has a wide range of viewers, but it presently followed by a majority of right-winged audiences.  Most of his articles have a political theme to them, though Pool does not seem to completely radical or severely conservative in his opinions.  

Websites: 

Tim Pool - YouTube 

TIMCAST IRL - TIMCAST IRL  

Tim Pool (@Timcast) / Twitter 

Articles: 

Articles by Tim Pool | Freelance Journalist | Muck Rack 

Twitter: The World's Most Dangerous Radicalization Engine (humanevents.com)