Hank Klibanoffis an American journalist, now a professor at Emory University. He and Gene Roberts won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History for the book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation... (wikipedia)
I would always wish for eyewitness access to the story itself in this case, to the miners to verify for ourselves what had transpired. We didn't have that. But we certainly had more than whisper-down-the-lane verification when the governor confirmed their survival.
I would always wish for eyewitness access to the story itself ù in this case, to the miners ù to verify for ourselves what had transpired. We didn't have that. But we certainly had more than whisper-down-the-lane verification when the governor confirmed their survival.
Merely writing about him was unusual, but writing a profile, as if he were a human being, was groundbreaking.
This is when the northern press started looking at the dehumanization of African Americans in the South.
Don did great work for this paper for many years. We'll miss him.
There was ample opportunity for him to signal that to the editor. It was a total absence of communication by the reporter.