Scooping the Competition in the Digital Age


One of the books that had a big impact on me during my larval stage as a journalist was Dan Rather’s “The Camera Never Blinks.” The memoir was of Rather’s experiences as a truly trailblazing and courageous TV reporter, not Rather the lightning-rod anchor with the southern-fried election night phraseology. Here is local Houston reporter Rather clinging to a tree in the winds of Hurricane Carla and getting the attention of CBS News; here’s Dallas bureau chief Rather getting a priest at Parkland Hospital to confirm that President Kennedy had died.

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Scooping the Competition in the Digital Age

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