The Inconvenient Journalist

A Memoir

Dusko Doder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2021
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5909-3 (ISBN)

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In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died. The CIA at first dismissed the reporting, saying that "Doder must be smoking pot." When Soviet authorities confirmed Andropov's death, journalists and intelligence officials questioned how a lone reporter could scoop the multibillion-dollar US spy agency. The stage was set for Cold War-style revenge against the star journalist, and that long night at the teletype machine in Moscow became a pivotal moment in Doder's life.

After emigrating to the United States from Yugoslavia in 1956, Doder committed himself to the journalist's mission. He knew that reporting the truth could come at a price, something driven home by his years of covering Soviet dissidents and watching his Washington Post colleagues break the Watergate story. Still, he was not prepared for a cloaked act of reprisal from the CIA.

Taking aim at Doder, the CIA insinuated a story into Time magazine suggesting that he had been coopted by the KGB. Doder's professional world collapsed and his personal life was shaken as he fought Time in court. In The Inconvenient Journalist, Doder reflects on this attempt to destroy his reputation, his dedication to reporting the truth, and the vital but precarious role of the free press today.

The Inconvenient Journalist is a powerful human story and a must-read for all concerned about freedom of the press and truthful reporting.

Dusko Doder is a former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post. His numerous awards include the Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence and the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting. He is the author of The Firebird Affair and other books. Louise Branson is a former Moscow correspondent for the London Sunday Times and a former editorial writer for USA TODAY. She is the coauthor of Gorbachev and Milosevic.

Prologue: The Assassination

1. The Story That Died

2. A Moscow Education

3. Evading the KGB to Make Contacts

4. Hired by the Washington Post

5. Perils Covering My Native Yugoslavia

6. Back at a Paper Changed by Watergate

7. Post Moscow Correspondent at Last

8. Covering Russia's KGB Tsar

9. The Price for Breaking a Rule of Journalism

10. Love Changes Everything

11. Reluctant Intelligence Reporter

12. Casey's Revenge

13. Seeking a New Life in China

14. A Reckoning in Yugoslavia

15. Assassination by Time Magazine

Epilogue: Dogs Bark

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2021
Co-Autor	Louise Branson
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5017-5909-4 / 1501759094
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-5909-3 / 9781501759093
Zustand	Neuware