#1603 – David McCraw

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Apr 09 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

David McCraw is the top newsroom lawyer for the New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. In short: if you’ve read a controversial story in the paper since the Bush administration, it went across his desk first. McCraw is at the center of the paper’s decisions about what news is […]

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