James S. Doyle

James S. "Jim" Doyle (born c. 1935) is an American journalist and activist. A Washington journalist from 1965 until 1998, first as bureau chief for The Boston Globe, where he broke the first story of an unqualified nominee for federal district judge, which led to the withdrawal of the nomination and the Globe’s winning its first Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Service in 1966. In 1970 he joined The Washington Star as national correspondent.

He was Special Assistant to Watergate Prosecutors Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski and Henry Ruth from 1973 to 1975. His book on the battles of the Watergate prosecutors, Not Above The Law, was published by William Morrow in 1977.

After his work with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force he became chief political correspondent and deputy Washington bureau chief for Newsweek magazine. In 1983 he left Newsweek to take over editorial operations at Army Times Publishing Company, a group of six national weeklies covering the military, defense, aerospace and civilian federal workers. He retired as executive editor in October 1998. His first assignment after retirement was to supervise the research project for the Committee of Concerned Journalists which resulted in the study entitled “The Clinton/Lewinsky Story: How Accurate? How Fair?” which received widespread favorable comment in the press and in the journalism reviews. Then he served as senior adviser to Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, a non-profit seeking to change federal budget priorities by reducing the defense budget 15% and moving the funds to child health care and education.

He’s a graduate of Boston College, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a member of the Society of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. He is a past member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the advisory board of the Pew Center For Civic Journalism, and an associate of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Wikipedia bio:
He graduated from Boston College in 1956,[1] and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (with honors) in 1961.[2] He was a 1965 Society of Nieman Fellows awardee at Harvard University.[3]

He started as Washington bureau chief for The Boston Globe in 1965, where he broke the story of an unqualified nominee for federal district judge, which led to the withdrawal of the nomination and the Globe's winning its first Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Service in 1966. In 1970 he joined The Washington Star as national correspondent, which landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.

In 1973 to 1975 Doyle was Special Assistant to Watergate Prosecutors Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski and Henry Ruth. His book on the battles of the Watergate prosecutors, Not Above The Law, was published by William Morrow in 1977. From 1976 to 1983 he was chief political correspondent and deputy Washington bureau chief for Newsweek magazine.
Doyle retired in 1998, then supervised the Committee of Concerned Journalists study "The Clinton/Lewinsky Story: How Accurate? How Fair?"[4]

Since then he has been a senior adviser to Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's aimed at convincing the public of a need to shift 15% ($40 billion-plus) from defense procurement of Cold-War weapons to domestic programs such as child health insurance and Head Start.

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