Top to bottom: Cokie Roberts, Steven Roberts, April Ryan, Michael Isikoff, Paul Danahar, and Lawrence O’Donnell
Nobody seems to have a neutral opinion about journalists, particularly now. They’re looked up to as a “last best hope for the republic” or denounced as “enemies of the people”—or something in between. Decide for yourself when you get some first-hand insights into today’s reporters as some of the best of the best discuss life in the trenches.
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Michael Isikoff
One measure of the quality of an investigative reporter is how many toes he’s stepped on and who they belonged to. Suffice it to say Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo news— past national investigative correspondent for NBC News and Newsweek—hasn’t played favorites. At Newsweek, he broke the Monica Lewinsky story. As a co-author, he unearthed important new information on the links between Russia and the election of Donald Trump. In 2009, he was named on a list of the 50 best and most influential journalists in the nation's capital by Washingtonian magazine.
His book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve) is available for sale and signing after the program.
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