Charles Lane (journalist)

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Charles "Chuck" Lane is a journalist and editor who is a staff writer for The Washington Post. His articles mostly center around Supreme Court of the United States.[1] and judicial system. He was the lead editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999.

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Early life and education

Lane earned his Bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1983 and, as a Knight Fellow, a Master of Studies in Law from Yale in 1997.

Career

Lane is a former general editor of Newsweek and served as its Berlin bureau chief. He received a citation for excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the former Yugoslavia[2] and contributed to the book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff. He has appeared as a commentator on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's The Diane Rehm Show.

From 1997 to 1999 Lane was lead editor of The New Republic. In 1998 a scandal erupted about fabricated reporting by Stephen Glass. Lane fired Glass and accepted responsibility for printing Glass's fabricated stories.

From 2003 to 2004 Lane was a Media Fellow of the Japan Society and U.S. Japan Foundation.[3] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Since 2000, Lane has been covering the Supreme Court beat for the Washington Post. He also teaches a course in journalistic fraud at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Lane taught a similar course at Princeton University in the spring of 2008. In 2006, he was one of four finalists for the director position of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University; Lee Huebner was chosen.

The Day Freedom Died

Main article: The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

In March 2008 Henry Holt and Co. published Lane's first solo-authored book, a history of the Colfax Massacre of 1873, when a conflict over a disputed gubernatorial election and local officers ended in the murder of more than 80 freedmen by white paramilitary forces in Colfax, Louisiana. Lane describes the events leading up to the massacre, but especially focuses on the political repercussions of prosecution of members of the white militia and the resulting Supreme Court case, United States v. Cruikshank (1875). He focuses on the lawyer who took the resulting case to the Supreme Court. The book has received excellent reviews from a number of commentators and academics, as well as the Washington Post Book World.[4]

Popular culture

External links

  • Interview with Lane on "New Books in History"

Notes

  1. ^ Lane, Charles. "Full Court Press". The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  2. ^ "Crimes of War Project The Book - Contributors". The Crimes of War Project. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  3. ^ "Supreme Court Preview, September 15 & 16, 2006, Who’s Who" (PDF). The College of William & Mary. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  4. ^ http://www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com/henryholt/search/SearchBookDisplay.asp?BookKey=6172781. Retrieved on 2008-05-20.
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