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Fresh Air, Gene Roberts, Tom Kunkel and Dennis McDougal

By: Terry Gross
Narrated by: Terry Gross
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 Writers Gene Roberts, Tom Kunkel and Dennis McDougal on this edition of Fresh Air. Gene Roberts and Tom Kunkel are the authors of the new book, Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering. The book examines how newspaper reporting is being altered by the buying, selling, and consolidation of papers. Thomas Kunkel is dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and president of American Journalism Review. Gene Roberts, longtime executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer is a professor of journalism at the college. Dennis McDougal's book is Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the rise and fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty. It's a history of the paper from 1960 to 1980, during that time Otis Chandler, a fourth generation member of the family, took control of the paper. Dennis McDougal is a former investigative journalist for the L.A. Times. (Broadcast Date: June 14, 2001)(P) and ©2001 WHYY-FM
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