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Rosenfeld, editor for Post’s Watergate coverage, dies at 91

July 16, 2021 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Harry M. Rosenfeld, a longtime newspaper editor who helped guide the Washington Post’s Pulitzer-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal, died Friday at age 91.

Rosenfeld had been in declining health since contracting COVID-19 in December and recently had heart issues.

Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump’s presidency

December 7, 2020 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Woodward's next book finds him in the familiar world of documenting a presidency's ending...

Carl Bernstein says 21 GOP senators contemptuous of Trump

By DAVID BAUDERNovember 23, 2020 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Watergate sleuth Carl Bernstein took to Twitter to list the names of 21 Republican senators who he says have “repeatedly expressed contempt” for Donald Trump and his fitness to be president...

Press must have access to White House -- Anne McGill

Staff WriterMay 17, 2019 GMT

This letter to the editor is in response to the White House limiting press passes to "special credentialing," which means that only those members of the press approved or selected by the president or press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will have access to the White House.

War of words between Donald Trump and CNN rages on

Gabriella Muñoz The Washington TimesAugust 30, 2018 GMT

President Trump continued to harp on CNN Thursday, declaring its "credibility is now gone!"

CNN is working frantically to find their "source." Look hard because it doesn't exist. Whatever was left of CNN's credibility is now gone!

CNN stands by story about whether Trump knew of meeting

By DAVID BAUDERAugust 30, 2018 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a key source backing off his assertion, CNN is sticking by a story casting doubt on President Donald Trump's claim that he did not have prior knowledge of a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton...

Bob Woodward writing inside account of Trump White House

July 30, 2018 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The next writer to take a close look at the Trump presidency: Bob Woodward.

The celebrated journalist of Watergate fame has written "Fear: Trump in the White House," Simon & Schuster announced Monday...

Infowars host Alex Jones moves to dismiss Sandy Hook lawsuit

By PAT EATON-ROBBJuly 23, 2018 GMT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones argued he was acting as a journalist, comparing himself to the Washington Post reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal, when he questioned the official narrative of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting on his talk show...

Absent glitter and Trump, journalists honor press freedom

By JACK GILLUMApril 30, 2017 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent Washington journalists, if not Hollywood stars, celebrated the First Amendment during the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, an event that lacked the glitter of past years because of the absence of the president of the United States...