This morning, as I sat down to browse through today's possibilities for the Tracker, I came across a nice little science story out of Stanford. Two researchers "have successfuly enabled a pair of rhesus...
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26Nov 2012
This morning, as I sat down to browse through today's possibilities for the Tracker, I came across a nice little science story out of Stanford. Two researchers "have successfuly enabled a pair of rhesus monkeys to move a virtual cursor across a computer screen merely by thinking about their response to human commands," the story reports.
This is not something I would ordinarily have picked out for the Tracker--it's a competent piece, but not remarkable. What was remarkable was the byline: David Perlman.
Perlman has been filing stories for more than 80 years, since he used a mimeograph machine to launch a newspaper in junior high school. He has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1940--72 years ago. Perlman turned 90 in 2009, a...
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary today, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism...
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary today, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University put together a list of what it calls the "100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years.” Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward are there. So is Seymour Hersh. And the great David Halberstam. Along with Howard Cosell. (Don't ask me to explain that one.) You'll see a lot of familiar names, and some not so familiar, such as Richard Harding Davis. It's fairly New York-oriented, but then so is journalism, and so is...
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