Bill Kovach

Bill Kovach is currently chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. Kovach has been a journalist and writer for 40 years. He began his career at the Johnson City (Tennessee) Press Chronicle (1959-1960) and later served as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean (1960-1967) where he covered the civil rights movement, southern politics, and Appalachian poverty. After a year of study on a journalism fellowship at Stanford University he joined The New York Times (1968-1986), where he worked as a reporter and later as the chief of the Times’ Washington bureau. He served as editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution for two years, during which time he won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first awarded to the paper in 20 years. He was appointed a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1988-89 and remained as curator. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As an editor Kovach supervised reporting projects that won four Pulitzer Prizes. He has also delivered a number of journalism lectures, served on Pulitzer juries, co-authored Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media with Tom Rosenstiel, and contributed to a number of other books. He attended East Tennessee State University.

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Seminar speeches given by Bill Kovach:

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