Joshua Benton founded Nieman Lab in 2008 and served as its director until 2020; he is now the Lab’s senior writer. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent a decade in newspapers, mostly at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from a dozen foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and occasional rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He wrote his first HTML in January 1994.
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Benton, Joshua. "All the newsroom’s men: How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Jun. 2022. Web. 28 Jan. 2023.
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Benton, J. (2022, Jun. 7). All the newsroom’s men: How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved January 28, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/all-the-newsrooms-men-how-one-third-of-the-watergate-three-got-written-out-of-journalism-history/
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Benton, Joshua. "All the newsroom’s men: How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 7, 2022. Accessed January 28, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/all-the-newsrooms-men-how-one-third-of-the-watergate-three-got-written-out-of-journalism-history/.
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