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Carl Bernstein began part-time work at the Washington Star at the age of 16 and later dropped out of the University of Maryland to work full-time as a reporter. Bernstein joined the Washington Post's metropolitan staff in 1966, specializing in police, court and city hall assignments, with occasional self-assigned feature stories. Bernstein made a h...
Carl Bernstein was born in Washington, D.C., on February 14, 1944. When he was 16, he worked at the Washington Star newspaper as a copy boy, but he soon enrolled at the University of Maryland. Bernstein’s academic career was a short one, though, as his drive to be a reporter took over, and he dropped out to pursue a full-time journalism career with...
Bernstein joined the Washington Post in 1966 as part of its metro staff, but in a few years he would bring the Post more attention than anyone could have imagined. In the summer of 1972, a group of men were arrested burglarizing the Watergate building, a Washington, D.C., apartment complex. As it turned out, they were removing wire-tapping devices ...
Bernstein left the Washington Post at the end of 1976 and worked as an investigative reporter for ABC. He wrote about international intrigue while contributing to such magazines as Time, New Republic, the New York Times and Rolling Stone. He also wrote more books, notably His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time (1996) and A Wo...
Jan 11, 2022 · Bernstein doesn't mention his later fame in Chasing History — this is a memoir limited to a set period of time, and he resists the urge to look forward. This gives the book its strength: It's ...
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In 2012, Carl Bernstein spoke at a rally of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, an opposition Iranian organization that had previously been listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States, reportedly receiving a payment for his speech.
Mar 19, 1989 · Even on his ABC income, Bernstein couldn't always pay his credit-card bill on time and he bounced checks, says Jane Brooks, who, as Bernstein's secretary at ABC, paid his bills.
Jan 11, 2022 · It would have been easy for the legendary reporter Carl Bernstein to fall into the nostalgia trap with his new book, the memoir Chasing History, which chronicles his earliest years in the newspaper business. Happily, he doesn't. While it's a mostly fond look at the past, he deftly avoids all the "things sure were better back then" pitfalls.
Apr 30, 2017 · April 30, 2017 9:48 AM EDT. P ulitzer Prize-winning journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, known for uncovering former President Richard Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal, have ...
Jun 3, 1979 · The graduation speech by Carl Bernstein, published in last Sunday's Outlook section, was delivered at Montgomery Blair High School in 1976, not 1977 as reported.
