Barry Sussman

Barry Sussman (born July 10, 1934) is an American editor, author, and public opinion analyst who deals primarily with public policy issues. He was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate break-in and supervised much of the reporting on the Watergate affair.[1]

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Barry Sussman
Born
July 10, 1934 Brooklyn, New York
EducationBrooklyn College, 1956
OccupationEditor, author, opinion analyst
Spouse(s)Peggy Earhart Sussman
ChildrenSeena Sussman and Shari Golob; four grandchildren
FamilySamuel Sussman (father)
Esther Sussman (mother)
(née Rosen)

Career

Sussman started in journalism in 1960 as a reporter at the Bristol (Va.-Tenn.) Herald Courier, a daily with a circulation of about 25,000. He left after 16 months but soon returned as managing editor before going to The Washington Post in 1965. He was a state-suburban editor, then DC editor, with a staff of 40 to 45 reporters. He was city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate break-in and was detached to direct the coverage that led to the Post’s being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973. [2] After Watergate, he founded the Washington Post poll, designing and conducting opinion surveys and reporting on the results. in 1981 he was in charge for the Post in establishing and directing the Washington Post/ABC News poll, again designing surveys and doing most of the reporting on the findings. Sussman left the Post in 1987 to become managing editor for national news at United Press International, in charge of 800 reporters and editors across the U.S. and 40 more in UPI's Washington Bureau. He left UPI after less than one year, however, and set up shop as an independent pollster, continuing to focus on public policy issues. Clients included trade associations, the AFL-CIO, and other interest groups. In the 1990s he became active as an international news media consultant, with assignments at newspapers in Spain, Portugal and seven Latin American countries. From 2003 to 2012 he was editor and website manager of the Watchdog Project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.[3] focused on public policy news reporting.[4] Currently he is a board member of the group Innovation Media Consulting.[5]

Sussman is one of the journalists profiled at Investigating Power[6], a website covering events in recent American history.[7]

While initially a close supervisor of the acclaimed journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in later years Sussman became estranged from them.[8][9][10][11]

In September 2011 Sussman was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from Brooklyn College, his alma mater. Among other awards, Sussman was named editor of the year by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild for his work on Watergate.

Bibliography
  • The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate ISBN 0983114005 ISBN 0451621301[12]
  • What Americans Really Think ISBN 9780394563039[13]
  • Maverick, A Life in Politics ISBN 9780316928144[14]

His book, The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate,[15][16] was named by The New York Times as one of the best books of the year in 1974.[17] He is also the author of What Americans Really Think,[18] published by Pantheon in 1988, based on columns he wrote while pollster and public opinion analyst at The Washington Post, and Maverick, A Life in Politics,[19] written with and about the former U.S. Senator and governor of Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., published in 1995 by Little, Brown.

References
  1. Stein, Jeff (May 17, 2019). "The Watergate Editor on How Trump "Leads the Press Around by the Nose"". Retrieved February 18, 2020 – via The New Republic.
  2. JUDICIOUS 'JUDGMENT' By Barry Sussman (review of "Summer of Judgment: The Impeachment Hearings")
  3. "Sussman Named Editor of Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  4. "Watchdog Blog » Barry Sussman". blog.niemanwatchdog.org. January 18, 2012. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2020 – via web.archive.org.
  5. "Innovation Media Consulting Group". Innovation. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  6. "Barry Sussman". Investigating Power. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  7. "Barry Sussman: Investigating Watergate". youtube. InvestigatingPower. July 31, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2020. Former Washington Post editor Barry Sussman talks about investigating Watergate at the National Press Club panel discussion on April 25, 2012
  8. Shepard, Alicia C. (February 18, 2007). Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Wiley. ISBN 9780471737612. Retrieved February 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
  9. Holland, Max (March 11, 2013). "The Myth of Bob Woodward: Why Is This Man an American Icon?". Newsweek. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  10. "LATer: Deep Throat Didn't Really Matter". www.adweek.com. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  11. "ARPA: Deep Throat comes out—Revisiting Watergate". Australian Review of Public Affairs. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  12. Sussman, Barry (February 18, 1982). "784 days that changed America :from Watergate to resignation /". New York. hdl:2027/uva.x000976005. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. "Is Anybody Up There Listening? : WHAT AMERICANS REALLY THINK And Why Our Politicians Pay No Attention by Barry Sussman (Pantheon Books: $17.95; 241 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. June 19, 1988. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  14. Williams, Larry. "A BORING SPIN ON A FEISTY POLITICAL LIFE". courant.com. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  15. "The Great Cover-Up: Extracts From Barry Sussman's book on Watergate". December 20, 2019. Archived from the original on December 20, 2019. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  16. "Excerpts: The Great Coverup - Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate". November 12, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  17. Hume, Brit (December 8, 1974). "The Great Cover‐Up". Retrieved February 18, 2020 – via NYTimes.com.
  18. "Is Anybody Up There Listening? : WHAT AMERICANS REALLY THINK And Why Our Politicians Pay No Attention by Barry Sussman (Pantheon Books: $17.95; 241 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. June 19, 1988. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  19. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n6_v27/ai_17040686/
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