Columbia Journalism Review, March 1st, 2001
Under the title ROLE MODELS, CJR asks accomplished journalists to write about the people who inspired them. Here Tom Nagorski, foreign editor for ABC's World News Tonight, remembers a brief but instructive moment with Robert Trout, whose path he crossed ten years ago.
When word came in November that the great broadcast journalist Robert Trout had died -- in his sleep, in a Manhattan hospital -- colleagues in the newsroom and obituary writers remembered the D-Day landings, Alan Shepard's space flight, and some of the seventeen presidential campaigns Trout covered, all the way back to FDR's w...
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