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...editor. Perhaps that is why he has proclaimed his distaste for the impure partisanship of most political press secretaries. "I'm not a spin doctor," he says. "We don't do research on the opponents and feed it to the press." At 31, after 10 years at the Nashville Tennessean, he became the Chicago Tribune's Washington correspondent. By 34, he was the editor of the Tribune Co.-owned Sentinel in Orlando. Four years later, he was editor of the Tribune itself. He ruffled feathers in that newsroom by detaching reporters from their regular beats -- one sportswriter was assigned...
Shannon first covered the drug problem in 1968 as a cub reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. She worked for several publications before coming to TIME in 1987, and has written a book about Enrique Camarena Salazar, the U.S. DEA agent kidnapped and murdered by Mexican drug traffickers and corrupt officials. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win was a best seller in paperback earlier this year. The book was turned into the NBC mini-series Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, which won an Emmy as the best mini-series...
...endorsed Al Gore, who was at the bottom of the paper's polls. But Editor Jim Squires is a close friend of Gore's and talks with him regularly. The relationship dates back to the early 1970s, when Gore worked for Squires as a cub reporter on the Nashville Tennessean. The top editors of the Atlanta Constitution and Orlando Sentinel also worked with Gore in Nashville, and both papers likewise endorsed...
...reporting this week's stories, Shannon joined U.S. Customs officers on a flight over the U.S.-Mexican border. She began her career in journalism as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean while a senior at Vanderbilt University, then attended Harvard in 1974 and 1975 as a Nieman fellow. After four years as the Tennessean's Washington correspondent, she joined Newsday and then Newsweek. Since last April, TIME has become the fortunate recipient of her investigative skills and long experience in tracking the activities of U.S. drug enforcers. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen and the War America...
...Labor. In the end, he enlisted as an Army reporter, and his father went down in defeat. "The combination of Viet Nam and his dad's losing really turned Al off politics," says his mother. Returning home in 1971, he became a reporter and editorial writer for the Nashville Tennessean. While working as a journalist, he enrolled at Vanderbilt, first as a theology student and then in law school...