Harry Rosenfeld - In Memoriam
Speaking of Writers
English - July 17, 2021 15:29 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Harry M. Rosenfeld died this week at his home in Slingerlands, NY. He was a child refugee from Nazi Germany. Harry was a key figure in the Washington Post's coverage of The Watergate break in and scandal as managing editor. He even hired Bob Woodward. He had a 50 year career in the newspaper business including working at The New York Herald Tribune, and being the top editor of two Albany NY newspapers. His philosophy on journalism from his 2013 memoir was "holding to account the accountable, the more powerful the better.”
I interviewed Harry shortly after he released his book "Battling Editor: The Albany Years" in 2019.