Journalists who left an impression on people's lives

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James Earle Breslin (October 17, 1928 – March 19, 2017)

 

Breslin’s column about the grave digger, a man named Clifton Pollard, who told the lone reporter who approached him how honored he was to be digging the grave for the fallen President, became part of journalism history.

 

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When I reminded Breslin, who never finished college, that his outside-the-box gravedigger’s story is taught in every journalism school in the country he came alive. “Yes! They should, too,” he exclaimed. “It’s the gravedigger’s theory.”

 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/postscript-jimmy-breslin

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Breslin credited his go-it-alone approach to his days starting out as a young sports reporter for the old Long Island Press and the Journal-American, in the nineteen-fifties. “You always went to the losers’ dressing room,” he said. “That’s where the story was.”

 

 

Edited June 9, 2021 by happiness IS

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Henry Bernard Levin CBE (19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Levin