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2022 Commencement Speaker announced Bob Woodward, seniors react

Fiona Broadie May 6, 2022
Commencement speaker for the Class of 2022 announced to be Bob Woodward at the annual senior breakfast.
Blaming the Messenger (Episode 1): The Media Presidency and Nixon's "The Press is the Enemy"

Blaming the Messenger (Episode 1): The Media Presidency and Nixon’s “The Press is the Enemy”

Jackson Machesky September 29, 2020

President Donald Trump's near-daily attacks against the news media have become a staple of presidential politics. But how on earth did we get to this point? Join The Daily Free Press as we analyze...

Gabriella Aponte

2020 Breakdown: Is the president of the United States truly above the law?

Gabriella Aponte September 17, 2020
How many times have you turned on the television in the last four years to yet another news story about President Donald Trump possibly breaking this or that law?
EDITORIAL: Bob Woodward missed the journalistic mark by withholding valuable information from the public

EDITORIAL: Bob Woodward missed the journalistic mark by withholding valuable information from the public

Editors September 11, 2020
Woodward is most famously known for reporting on Watergate — the scandal that shook America so hard Nixon had no choice but to resign from office. Woodward did not hesitate to expose the truth then, and his reasoning for the delay now is shaky.
JOHNSTON: Way to go, Weiner

JOHNSTON: Way to go, Weiner

Andrew Johnston November 3, 2016

Just like that, America is bombarded with yet another firestorm of publicity after the recent decision by the FBI decision to look into more emails possibly related to Hillary Clinton. FBI Director James...

Investigative journalist Bob Woodward, left, discusses his novel "The Last of the President's Men" during a conversation moderated by David Gergen at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on Tuesday night. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Bob Woodward calls for clear-watered, open-gated politics

Samantha J. Gross October 21, 2015

Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the Watergate scandal with colleague Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post in 1972, visited Cambridge Tuesday to promote his...

“Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead,” is a documentary about the renowned magazine National Lampoon. PHOTO COURTESY MAGNOLIA PICTURES

INTERVIEW: Director Douglas Tirola on where National Lampoon went right

Joe Incollingo October 15, 2015

Say what you want about National Lampoon. At least it was honest with itself. Spun off from the Harvard Lampoon in 1969 by editors Doug Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman, the now-defunct humor...

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