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The Inconvenient Journalist : A Memoir
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Title
The Inconvenient Journalist : A Memoir / Dusko Doder.
ISBN
9781501759109
Publication
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (272 p.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
In The Inconvenient Journalist, Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died. The CIA at first dismissed the reporting, saying that "Doder must be smoking pot." When Soviet authorities confirmed Andropov's death, journalists and intelligence officials questioned how a lone reporter could scoop the multi-billion-dollar US spy agency. The stage was set for Cold War-style revenge against the star journalist and a that long night at the teletype machine in Moscow became a pivotal moment in Doder's life. After emigrating to the United States from Yugoslavia in 1956, Doder committed himself to the journalist's mission. He knew that reporting the truth could come with a price, something driven home by his years of covering Soviet dissidents and watching his Washington Post colleagues break the Watergate story. Still, he was not prepared for a cloaked act of reprisal from the CIA. Taking aim at Doder, the CIA insinuated a story into Time Magazine suggesting that he had been coopted by the KGB. Doder's professional world collapsed and his personal life was shaken as he fought Time in court. In The Inconvenient Journalist, Doder reflects on this attempt to destroy his reputation, his dedication to reporting the truth, and the vital but precarious role of free press today. The Inconvenient Journalist is a powerful human story and a must-read for all concerned about freedom of the press and truthful reporting.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 11, 2021
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue: The Assassination
1. The Story That Died
2. A Moscow Education
3. Evading the KGB to Make Contacts
4. Hired by the Washington Post
5. Perils Covering My Native Yugoslavia
6. Back at a Paper Changed by Watergate
7. Post Moscow Correspondent at Last
8. Covering Russia's KGB Tsar
9. The Price for Breaking a Rule of Journalism
10. Love Changes Everything
11. Reluctant Intelligence Reporter
12. Casey's Revenge
13. Seeking a New Life in China
14. A Reckoning in Yugoslavia
15. Assassination by Time Magazine
Epilogue: Dogs Bark
Acknowledgments
Index
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