National & International

Metro & State

John Archibald
Local Government With Kyle Whitmire
Conservation: The Behavior Gap
Magic City Marketplace
The Price of Poverty
Price of Poverty: Time Banks
Price of Poverty: Involuntary Flextime
Price of Poverty: Buy-a-Meter
Birmingham-Southern's Struggles: a Student Perspective
Price of Poverty: Food Deserts
Remembering Cecil Whitmire
Occupational Tax Settlement
Child Care Subsidies at Risk
Robert Bentley
Vestavia Hills: Library in the Forest
Hotel Tax Dispute
Oil Spill and Hair Sausages
Anne Frank and Me
Jefferson County Commission Runoff
On the Line: Ask the Mayor
Midwives in Alabama
The Future of the Jefferson County Commission
New EPA Sulfur Dioxide Rules
Alabama Gubernatorial Primary 2010
Alabama and the Oil Spill: Seafood Safety
Alabama and the Oil Spill: One Family's Story
Bike to Work
The ASO plays Carnegie Hall
Alabama and the Oil Spill: Hurricane Season
News Features Archive

90.3 WBHM | Birmingham -- About three years ago, a scandal befell The New York Times that threatened the paper's reputation and journalistic muscle. A young reporter that had been hailed and promoted, Jayson Blair, was found to have plagiarized and fabricated several of his stories for the newspaper. He was fired. In the weeks that followed, the management of The Times made some changes to put the scandal to rest. Those changes cost the executive editor his job. But Howell Raines says it was part of his journey to getting back to doing what he wants to do and that is write and fish. Over four decades, Raines climbed the print journalism ladder, starting in Birmingham at the News and Post-Herald and making his way to New York and The Times. His new book, The One That Got Away uses some scaley metaphors to highlight those events that allowed him to get back to doing the basic things he loves the most.

~Steve Chiotakis, May 19, 2006

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