It’s a good day to get a job as an investigative reporter.
Michael Isikoff, who has worked for Newsweek since 1994, has been hired by NBC News as a National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News president Steve Capus announced today.
Mr. Isikoff has been one of the best in his field, leading coverage of the Read More
One well-guarded secret in the press is that nobody necessarily agrees on the terms governing the guarding of secrets. “Deep background,” “not for attribution,” “off the record”–the specific interpretation varies from reporter to reporter and source to source.
Now Newsweek‘s Michael Isikoff has made things even more impenetrable with this week’s revelation that Time‘s Matthew Read More
Michael Isikoff was the guileless Candide of the Clinton scandal. Things kept happening to him. Even when he tried to get away from the Jones-Lewinsky-Willey-Broaddrick beat, he was dragged back (as were we all) by the sheer exorbitance and squalor of the President’s behavior. At one point, his Newsweek editor told him to do what Read More
Michael Isikoff was the guileless Candide of the Clinton scandal. Things kept happening to him. Even when he tried to get away from the Jones-Lewinsky-Willey-Broaddrick beat, he was dragged back (as were we all) by the sheer exorbitance and squalor of the President’s behavior. At one point, his Newsweek editor told him to do what Read More
Now that President Bill Clinton has confessed to an affair with Monica Lewinsky, one might expect some camaraderie between two of the scandal’s prime movers: Clinton-hating literary agent Lucianne Goldberg and the journalist she affectionately nicknamed “Spikey,” Newsweek ‘s muckraking Washington correspondent, Michael Isikoff. But a recent outgoing message on Ms. Goldberg’s answering machine suggested Read More
