The Journalist's Companion

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

 

 

Everyone needs an editor. I have been fortunate to have several of them on this project, starting with my usual “first reader,” my wife, Dr. Anne Fishel. I want to thank my colleagues at Boston University, Professor Mitch Zuckoff and Professor Jane Regan, for their invaluable advice. I also want to thank my able research assistant Kate Mays for getting to the bottom of things. B.U. journalism student and secret-hunter Daniel DeFraia strengthened the chapter on FOIA requests. And my son Gabe gave a close reading to the chapter on the Constitution.

I also wish to thank David Yarnold, who wrote the original accuracy checklist that I have adapted into Chapter 8.

Thanks also to my agent, Gina Maccoby, who believed from the ...