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Howard Kurtz

Howard Kurtz is the media reporter for The Washington Post, and also writes a weekly column for the newspaper and a daily blog for its website. He is also host of CNN's Reliable Sources, the longest-running media criticism show on television. His previous books include New York Times bestselling Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (1998) and The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation (2000). His book Hot Air: All Talk All the Time (1996) was named by Business Week as one of the ten best business books of the year and Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers (1993) was chosen as the best recent book about... Read full bio

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Chapter 1 from SPIN CYCLE
Aug 05, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Fortune Tellers
Jun 19, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Fortune Tellers
Feb 04, 2009
The Fortune Tellers is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
SPIN CYCLE is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Reality Show will be released on October 09, 2007 in Hardcover
Oct 09, 2007
Reality Show is now available in Hardcover
Oct 09, 2007
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SPIN CYCLE will be released on July 01, 2004 in eAudio
Jul 01, 2004
SPIN CYCLE is now available in eAudio
Jul 01, 2004
The Fortune Tellers will be released on June 05, 2001 in Trade Paperback
Jun 05, 2001

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Merrill College, May 15, 2012
...discussion of  questions raised about the veracity of Bob Woodward’s reporting during Watergate . He also joined host Howard Kurtz and former NBC News Correspondent Fred Francis for a conversation about Dan Rather’s new book and his continued...
Media Bistro, May 3, 2012
...bridge-burning exit from Fox, Muto denied that that had been his motive in an interview with CNN's Howard Kurtz last month. "I don't know what I'm going to do next. I'm still weighing a lot of options," he said. "I've seen it speculated...
The Atlantic Wire, April 16, 2012
...Fox News—until he was busted by week's end—is "weighing a lot of options," as he told Howard Kurtz on Sunday. What might he do next, aside from appearing on Howard Kurtz? We predicted a book deal, and we still do; after all, his career at Fox is...
Lucianne.com, April 2, 2012
...talked to him,” the latter detail echoing a leak that once dogged then-Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. Earlier, Howard Kurtz tweeted that he was “Hearing allegation that Olbermann switched car co’s and vendors New York Times, by Jeff...
Real Change News, March 16, 2012
...the recent noticeable increase in partisan political activity by Fox is hardly accidental. “In a confessional interview with Howard Kurtz, Ailes himself … even went so far as to acknowledge Fox’s strategy, telling Kurtz, ‘Every other network has...
Daily Beast, March 9, 2012
...Obama.   Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long. Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast and Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief, and writes the Spin Cycle blog. He also hosts CNN’s weekly media program Reliable...
TwinCities.com, February 14, 2012
...s Gabriel Sherman was writing about Fox's "move to the middle." And in an interview with Howard Kurtz in September, Ailes confirmed it. The strategy comes with both rewards and risks. Fox's debates have won widespread plaudits, as well as good ratings -...
Daily Beast, March 2, 2012
...serious here. Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long. Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast and Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief, and writes the Spin Cycle blog. He also hosts CNN’s weekly media program...
Daily Beast, March 2, 2012
...serious here. Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long. Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast and Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief, and writes the Spin Cycle blog. He also hosts CNN’s weekly media program...
KOCO 5, March 2, 2012
...family. "I would say most people don't know what their neighbors are doing," said criminologist Dr. Howard Kurtz. So when friends and family members said that Tara and Dan Johnston were the perfect couple, it is likely that was true, according to Kurtz....
PBS, March 2, 2012
...ON BREITBART AND CANDIDATE PHOTOS In the NewsHour's Daily Download segment Thursday, Jeffrey Brown (@jeffreybrown) talked with Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn about Andrew Breitbart's legacy. The Daily Download team (@dailydload) also talked about how...
KOCO 5, March 2, 2012
...family. "I would say most people don't know what their neighbors are doing," said criminologist Dr. Howard Kurtz. So when friends and family members said that Tara and Dan Johnston were the perfect couple it is likely that was true, according to Kurtz....
Marion Star, March 2, 2012
...by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages." -- Samuel Johnson, English biographer, lexicographer, 1758 -- Howard Kurtz, journalist, media critic, 2006 First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of...
Mansfield News Journal, March 2, 2012
...where they are being shot at, prosecuted, sued and stonewalled, that's increasingly hard to do." -- Howard Kurtz, journalist, media critic, 2006 First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free...