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News & Observer (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Mandy Locke, Staff Writer Pat Stith, a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter who exposed government corruption and those responsible for it, will retire next month after 37 years at The News & Observer.Stith, 66, devoted his career to newspapers, bringing to them a humility and peculiarity that's made him famous among journalists. His doggedness is feared in state government circles,...
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Raleigh News & Observer Pat Stith 's doggedness was feared in North Carolina government circles, where he's ended the careers of dozens of bureaucrats caught squandering money or taking kickbacks, reports Mandy Locke . "There are so many things I haven't done because I'm a newspaperman," says the 66-year-old newsman. "It's time. I am completely at peace with this decision."
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News & Observer (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Pat Stith, fierce government watchdog and reporter's hero, retires from The News & Observer this Friday. In the 48 years since his first byline, Stith set a standard for journalism at this paper and every other in the state.
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Bull City Rising (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
The Indy's been the bearer of bad N&O news a couple of times in the past couple of days -- first, noting the acceptance of a voluntary buy-out by investigative legend Pat Stith, followed closely today by the announcement today that ex-City Hall beat writer Matt Dees and current N&O Durham education reporter Samiha Khanna joined him, among 16 N&O'ers who've taken the plunge out of the newsroom...
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Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Pat Stith taught me a lot when I was working in North Carolina. He understood the psychology of an interview better than anybody I've met. He believed there was no substitute for hard work. And he never pretended to be...
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Right Angles (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
WRAL has a report that The News & Observer’s crack investigative reporter and Pulitzer winner Pat Stith is taking the McClatchy buyout: Stith, contacted by WRAL.com, declined to discuss the matter. “I can’t talk about that,” Stith said.
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
San Diego Union-Tribune Gerry Braun , a longtime political reporter at the San Diego Union-Tribune who resigned as its metro columnist this week, will become the San Diego mayor's director of special projects. The job will pay $140,000 a year. || Reported departure: Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Pat Stith is taking the News & Observer's buyout, according to WRAL.
