Charles Lane (journalist)

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Charles "Chuck" Lane is a journalist and editor who is currently a staff writer for The Washington Post. His beat is the Supreme Court of the United States.[1] He was the lead editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999.

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[edit] Career

Lane is a former general editor of Newsweek and has served as its Berlin bureau chief. He received a citation for excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the former Yugoslavia[2] and contributed to the book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff. He has appeared as a commentator on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's The Diane Rehm Show. From 2003 to 2004 Lane was a Media Fellow of the Japan Society and U.S. Japan Foundation.[3] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lane received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1983 and, as a Knight Fellow, a Master of Studies in Law from Yale in 1997.

Since at least 2000, Lane has been covering the Supreme Court beat for the Washington Post and also teaches a course in journalistic fraud at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. In 2006, he was one of four finalists for the director position of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, which was ultimately given to Lee Huebner.

[edit] The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

In March 2008 Henry Holt and Co. released Lane's first solo-authored book, a history of a massacre of over 80 black men by vigilante whites in Colfax, La. in 1873. Lane describes both the events leading up to the massacre and its political repercussions, focusing on the lawyer who took the case to the Supreme Court. The book has received very positive reviews from a number of commentators and academics, as well as Entertainment Weekly and the Washington Post Book World.[4]

[edit] Stephen Glass and Shattered Glass

When the Stephen Glass scandal broke at The New Republic in 1998, Lane fired Glass and accepted responsibility for printing Glass's fabricated stories. Lane was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard in the 2003 film Shattered Glass.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Lane, Charles. Full Court Press. The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  2. ^ Crimes of War Project The Book - Contributors. The Crimes of War Project. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  3. ^ Supreme Court Preview, September 15 & 16, 2006, Who’s Who (PDF). The College of William & Mary. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  4. ^ http://www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com/henryholt/search/SearchBookDisplay.asp?BookKey=6172781. Retrieved on 2008-05-20.
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