Bill Kovach

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Bill Kovach (

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, and co-author of the book The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect.

Biography

Born in 1932 in East Tennessee to Albanian parents, Kovach planned, after attending college at East Tennessee State University, to go to graduate school in marine biology. After four years in the U.S. Navy, a summer job at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Johnson City, Tennessee persuaded him to go into journalism.

Kovach covered the civil rights movement, politics and Appalachian poverty for the

John Seigenthaler, Sr.
led a successful fight to open the legislative chambers.

After Kovach spent a year at Stanford University on a journalism fellowship, Scotty Reston of The New York Times' Washington bureau hired him in 1968, and he spent 18 years there, including serving as its Washington bureau chief.

After a tempestuous two-year tenure as editor of the

Nieman Foundation
for Journalism.

He retired from Harvard in 2001 and returned to Washington, where he is senior counselor to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Kovach is the North American representative and chair of the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) Advisory Committee. He also serves on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism.

Awards

In 2000, Kovach received the

Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from Boston University
.

He founded the Committee of Concerned Journalists, which worked to increase the quality of journalism.

Besides The Elements of Journalism, Kovach is a co-author of Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media and Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload, all with Tom Rosenstiel.

In 2002, when it was discovered that

John Seigenthaler Sr., to monitor the investigation.[1]

References

  1. ^ Associated Press, "'USA Today' Probe Finds Kelley Faked Stories" Archived 2004-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, Editor & Publisher, 19 March 2004

External links

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