Bill Kovach
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Bill Kovach is an American journalist of Albanian origin.
After college, he planned to go to graduate school in marine biology. A summer job at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Johnson City, Tennessee convinced him to go into journalism.
Kovach has since covered the civil rights movement, politics and Appalachian poverty for the Nashville Tennessean. Scotty Reston of The New York Times Washington bureau hired Kovach in 1968, and Kovach spen two decades there, including serving as its Washington bureau chief.
After a tempestuous two-year tenure as editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he moved on to Harvard University in 1989 as curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. He founded the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
In 2002, when it was discovered that USA Today reporter Jack Kelley had fabricated some of his stories, USA Today turned to Kovach, along with veteran editors Bill Hilliard and John Seigenthaler Sr., to monitor the investigation. [1]
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“Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.”
[edit] References
- ^ Associated Press, "'USA Today' Probe Finds Kelley Faked Stories", Editor & Publisher, 19 March 2004
[edit] External links
- Paula Devlin (2001). Profile of a Journalist
- Tracy Thompson. A Newsroom Hero - journalist Bill Kovach. Washington Monthly, May, 2000.
- Bill Kovach profile via CCJ
