Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978?2012

Comprehensively examines career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for US commercial news organisations. His study became the award-winning The Washington Reporters. Now, a generation later, Hess and his team from Brookings and the George Washington University have tracked down 90 percent of the original group, interviewing 283.