Charles Lane (journalist)

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Charles "Chuck" Lane is a journalist and editor who is currently a staff writer for the Washington Post. He was the lead editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999.

[edit] Career

Lane 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] and contributed to the book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff. He has appeared as a commentator on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's The Diane Rehm Show. From 2003 to 2004 Lane was a Media Fellow of the Japan Society and U.S. Japan Foundation.^[2] He 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.

As of 2007 Lane covers the Supreme Court for the Washington Post and also teaches a course in journalistic fraud at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

[edit] Stephen Glass and Shattered Glass

When the Stephen Glass scandal broke at The New Republic in 1998, Lane fired Glass and accepted responsibility for printing Glass's fabricated stories. Lane was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard in the 2003 film Shattered Glass.