Charles Lane (journalist)
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Charles "Chuck" Lane is a journalist who is currently a staff writer for the Washington Post. Lane was the lead editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999.
When the Stephen Glass scandal broke in 1998, Lane fired Glass and accepted responsibility for printing Glass's fabricated stories. In the movie Shattered Glass, Lane was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard. He is a former general editor of Newsweek and has served as its Berlin bureau chief. He received a citation for excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the former Yugoslavia.[1] He has appeared as a commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), and The Diane Rehm Show (NPR). He contributed to Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Lane received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1983 and, as a Knight Fellow, a Master of Studies in Law from Yale in 1997. From 2003- 2004 Lane was a Media Fellow of the Japan Society and U.S. Japan Foundation.[2]
Lane covers the Supreme Court for the Washington Post and also teaches a course in journalistic fraud at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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- ^ Crimes Of War Project - The Book
- ^ [www.wm.edu/law/ibrl/documents/SCPBios2006_000.pdf Supreme Court Preview, September 15 & 16, 2006, Who’S Who], The College of William & Mary (PDF)
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