Shelby Coffey III
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Charles Shelby Coffey III
Earlier, Coffey was a reporter and editor at the
Awards
In 1995 The
He received the Ida B. Wells Award in 1995 "for exemplary achievement in the hiring and advancement of minorities in the news media."[3]
Memberships
Coffey is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Press Institute. He was on the board of the Pacific Council on International Policy.[3]
Controversies
During Coffey's time as editor of the L.A. Times, the paper published a lengthy three-part series examining the claims made in Gary Webb's 1996 "Dark Alliance" newspaper series. Webb had claimed that members of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua played a major role in creating the U.S. crack cocaine trade, using their smuggling profits to support their guerrilla war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The Times series found the "Dark Alliance" claims overstated, but was itself criticized[by whom?] for using anonymous sources, taking government claims too credulously, and failing to pursue Webb's story further.[4][5]
Publications
- The Art of Leadership in News Organizations[3]
References
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable, vol. 130, pg 76, 2000
- ^ a b Richardson, Lynda (26 January 2001). "PUBLIC LIVES; Journalist's Odyssey Leads to Philanthropy". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d e f "Shelby Coffey III," APCO Worldwide
- ^ Schou, Nick (18 August 2006). "The truth in 'Dark Alliance'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
- ISSN 0010-194X. Retrieved 2017-05-04.